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console-tools package

  1. Bug #23429
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 23429

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Kevin Williams (bthylafh) wrote :

This is still a problem as of 0.2.3dbs-65ubuntu. Debian's version apparently still has the same problem, while the inability to load any font wider than 8 pixels has been long-since fixed in kbd.

Here is a link to the Debian bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353203

Here's how I triggered the bug just now: ctrl-alt-F1 to open the console, type

$ consolechars -f /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat15-Terminus24x12.psf.gz
Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file
read_simple_font(): Invalid argument

Same happens with other Terminus fonts wider than 8 pixels. I don't currently have any wide non-Terminus console fonts.