Problem booting - possibly font related

Enrico1989 · Yesterday 17:33:53

seth wrote:

May 16 09:55:14 archlinux systemd-vconsole-setup[228]: setfont: ERROR setfont.c:435 kfont_load_font: Unable to find file: ter-d24b.psf.gz
You probably need to regenerate the initramfs and or explicitly add to font there (FILES array)

Should I do

# mkinitcpio -P

as per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio?

seth · Yesterday 19:00:50

I might have forgotten the twice on windows. Anyway, I've just done as you said:

Did you check whether it *was* disabled?

"mkinitcpio -P" will regenerate the initramfs, whether you also need to explicitly have to add to the FILES array w/ the systemd hooks idk (though it rings some bell, I think there was a thread about that)

Enrico1989 · Yesterday 20:37:32

seth wrote:

I might have forgotten the twice on windows. Anyway, I've just done as you said:
Did you check whether it *was* disabled?

Nope, I forgot

seth wrote:

explicitly have to add to the FILES array w/ the systemd hooks

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio is still the page I should go through to understand what this actually means, right?

seth wrote:

(though it rings some bell, I think there was a thread about that)

Searching for keywords initramfs files array systemd font gives 6 pages of results

seth · Yesterday 20:55:25

We don't need to find that thread - we'll just figure it again

the page I should go through

Specifically https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinit … _and_FILES

lsinitcpio /boot/initramfs-linux.img | grep ter-d24b

will hint whether the font is currently in the initramfs

Enrico1989 · Yesterday 23:58:38

# mkinitcpio -P

Done.

seth wrote:

the page I should go through
Specifically https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinit … _and_FILES

Mmmm. Ehm, what should I do?

seth wrote:

lsinitcpio /boot/initramfs-linux.img | grep ter-d24b
will hint whether the font is currently in the initramfs

For now this errors:

==> ERROR: Unable to read file: '/boot/initramfs-linux.img'

seth · Today 07:33:07

For the lts or zen kernels the initramfs would have a slightly different name.
If you need to explicitly add the font you need to add the path of the file to the FILES array.

Since this has nothing to do w/ the original problem, consider to https://bbs.archlinux.org/misc.php?report=2298381 post #4 and the tail to be split off into a specialized thread.

Lone_Wolf · Today 10:42:40

Moderator Note
Split off from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=313570 as requested by OP.

Enrico1989 · Today 13:27:01

Enrico1989 wrote:

For now this errors:

==> ERROR: Unable to read file: '/boot/initramfs-linux.img'

I'm an idiot, because I didnt' even read the message carefully. I had just forgotten sudo.

With sudo, the output is

usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/ter-d24b.psf

so the answer to

seth wrote:

whether the font is currently in the initramfs

is yes it is, no?

seth wrote:

For the lts or zen kernels the initramfs would have a slightly different name.

I use the "vanilla/stable" linux kernel.

seth wrote:

If you need to explicitly add the font you need to add the path of the file to the FILES array.

How do I know if I do need to explicitly add the font?

I don't think I've understood what the error is actually telling in practice. Ok, it reads "Unable to find file: ter-d24b.psf.gz", but what does that mean, in practice? Where should I see sympthoms of this error?

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