vconsole shows unreadable characters

mrechte · 2016-03-02 17:04:30

Hi,

Virtual console is sometime unsuable : prints garbage for each key typed, and screen is covered with + symbols.

Gnome and ssh sessions are OK.

In jounrnal I see nothing special apart from:
mars 02 17:04:53 rainbow.studelec-sa.com gnome-session[1663]: Ne peut pas se connecter à brltty sur :0
...
mars 02 17:31:06 rainbow.studelec-sa.com login[3167]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM tty2 FOR [1~[A[A[A[A, Authentication failure

Rebooting usually solves the problem.

# setfont cp437; killall agetty does not help

Thanks.

Last edited by mrechte (2016-03-08 08:40:16)

ugjka · 2016-03-02 17:06:56

Do you have /etc/vconsole.conf ?

jasonwryan · 2016-03-02 17:09:22

Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code

And don't paste truncated logs; paste the full output: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

mrechte · 2016-03-03 06:59:41

cat /etc/vconsole.conf

KEYMAP=fr
FONT=lat9-12
FONT_MAP=8859-2

Here a screenshot

Thanks

Last edited by mrechte (2016-03-03 07:18:44)

Docbroke · 2016-03-03 07:29:17

couldn't find screenshot, it shows shared album without any pics.
If this issue is indeed due to upgrade, it may be related to

2016-03-02 15:08] [ALPM] upgraded brltty (5.3.1-1 -> 5.3.1-2)

I couln't find anything related to vconsole other than that in your posted logs, is your vconsole garbage similar to braile language?

mrechte · 2016-03-03 10:54:51

Reverted brltty to 5.3.1-1, but no change

On the other hand, commenting FONT and FONT_MAP in /etc/vconsole.conf solves the problem !

Something must be wrong in my vconsole.conf

Docbroke · 2016-03-03 11:41:07

but how did your default font anf font map changed by itself?
anyway as your issue is solved kindly mark this thread solved by editing title of your first post

mrechte · 2016-03-03 12:19:30

It did not change by itself. I recently fine tuned according to the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide and especially https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … sole_fonts, but the problem did not appear immediately...

Something is not working as expected, so the problem is not solved as such.

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