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Ubuntu Server disrgards console-setup when rebooting in VirtualBox

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I found this weird behavior. In VirtualBox, Ubuntu Server 12.04 uses this font:

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I find that hard to read. Now I can run dpkg-reconfigure console-setup fine, and set the font to Fixed, then it looks like this:

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That is also how it looks by default in VMWare; much better in my opinion. Interestingly, the boot manager font also looks like that (i.e. loads correctly).

dpkg-reconfigure console-setup correctly updates the /etc/default/console-setup file, but after a reboot, all settings are gone. For some reason, it doesn't load console-setup.

Does anyone have an idea where the problem might be? Or better yet, where I could start looking?

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answered 3 Years ago ainbby · Accepted Answer

This is a bug:Console font does not get set, and you can see the patch from here.It's been fixed in 12.10, but the patch haven't been ported back to 12.04 by now.

So you can fix it by creating the upstart job /etc/init/console-font.conf with the following content:

# console-font - set console font

#

# Set the console font, in case the similar udev rule races with Plymouth

# and thus fails to do it.



description "set console font"



start on starting plymouth-splash



task



exec /lib/udev/console-setup-tty fbcon