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Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ?

From	Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject	Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ?
Date	2017-03-22 22:30 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 08:48:16PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:

> > 2017-03-22 13:05:13.364493514 +0100 /etc/console-setup/cached_setup_font.sh
> > 2017-03-22 13:05:13.364493514 +0100 /etc/console-setup/cached_setup_keyboard.sh
> > 2017-03-22 13:05:13.364493514 +0100 /etc/console-setup/cached_setup_terminal.sh
> > 2017-03-22 12:54:59.368053266 +0100 /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz
> > 2017-03-22 12:53:10.459239057 +0100 /etc/default/console-setup
> > 2017-03-07 09:26:01.171789164 +0100 /etc/default/keyboard
> 
> It seems something has changed /etc/default/console-setup. If this file 
> is changed, then boot scripts of console-setup will recreate the 
> cached_* files in /etc.
> 
> Do you know what has caused this file to be changed?

That was me, again, because I hoped that setting

	# Change to "yes" and setupcon will explain what is being doing
	VERBOSE_OUTPUT="yes"

from "no" to "yes" would generate helpful debugging output.
However, I haven't been able to find any :-/

> Something unrelated that might explain the bug is this: maybe this 
> system runs X

It does, yes.

> but doesn't have framebuffer on the console?

Oh, it does:

dmseg:
	[   20.377384] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
	...
	[   21.054248] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 170x48
	[   21.084983] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device


fbset -v -i

	Linux Frame Buffer Device Configuration Version 2.1 (23/06/1999)
	(C) Copyright 1995-1999 by Geert Uytterhoeven

	Opening frame buffer device `/dev/fb0'
	Using current video mode from `/dev/fb0'

	mode "1366x768"
	    geometry 1366 768 1366 768 32
	    timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
	    accel true
	    rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0
	endmode

	Getting further frame buffer information
	Frame buffer device information:
	    Name        : inteldrmfb
	    Address     : 0xd0048000
	    Size        : 4227072
	    Type        : PACKED PIXELS
	    Visual      : TRUECOLOR
	    XPanStep    : 1
	    YPanStep    : 1
	    YWrapStep   : 0
	    LineLength  : 5504
	    Accelerator : No

> BTW, instead of `systemctl restart console-setup.service` you can use 
> the command `setupcon`.

OK, I will resort to that in order to minimize what is involved.

Karsten
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Thread

Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <karsten.hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-03-22 11:40 +0100
  Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> - 2017-03-22 12:30 +0100
    Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-03-22 13:10 +0100
      Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> - 2017-03-22 14:10 +0100
        Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-03-22 15:30 +0100
          Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> - 2017-03-22 16:00 +0100
            Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-03-22 18:10 +0100
              Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> - 2017-03-22 20:00 +0100
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-03-22 22:30 +0100
        Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-03-23 11:10 +0100
          Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-03-23 11:40 +0100
            Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> - 2017-03-24 07:40 +0100
          Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> - 2017-03-23 14:10 +0100
            Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-03-23 14:30 +0100
            Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2017-03-23 14:40 +0100
              Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> - 2017-03-23 15:10 +0100
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2017-03-23 15:40 +0100
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> - 2017-03-23 15:50 +0100
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org> - 2017-03-23 18:20 +0100
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> - 2017-03-23 19:10 +0100
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-03-24 12:00 +0100
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-03-26 16:10 +0200
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> - 2017-03-26 19:50 +0200
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-03-26 20:30 +0200
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> - 2017-03-26 23:10 +0200
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-03-27 10:20 +0200
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-04-05 12:00 +0200
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2017-04-07 12:40 +0200
                Bug#857132: console-setup: additional info needed ? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-03-23 19:20 +0100

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