setfont executable was not found !!

Angry Geek · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 162 Location: .uk

After doing a emerge -u world I get 'setfont executable not found' on every boot. Any ideas what ebuild this lives in so I can downgrade or even better a fix

TIA.
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MADcow · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 6:43 pm Post subject:

same here.
the system still works fine though

Angry Geek · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 162 Location: .uk

setfont lives in a package called kbd. I'll emerge it at post my results.

MADcow, my system works okay, but certain keys such as £ or $ fail to work.
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Angry Geek · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 162 Location: .uk

Emerge of kbd-1.0.8-r4 solves this issue for me. Previously had 1.0.6.
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MADcow · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 10:41 pm Post subject:

i don't have a £ key. and my $ works fine

i'll merge that though...
thanks!

iZm · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Coventry, UK

Edit "/etc/rc.conf" and uncomment and change the "CONSOLETRANSLATION=" option to:

second_exodous · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 1:09 am Post subject:

I did a 'emerge -u world' and think I replaced a file. I get the setfont executable not found error on boot and can't start gnome anymore. I checked the file /etc/rc.conf, but don't really know how to change it.

Am I soposed to change the line 'CONSOLEFONT="default8x16" somehow? What should I put? I'm guessing it depends on the fonts I have on my system but not sure.

Thanx,
Stan

second_exodous · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 2:26 am Post subject:

I did 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kbd and that fixed the setfont error, but gdm still won't start up. I type gdm and it frezes for a while, then takes me back to the prompt, then when I type gdm again it says: Gdm already running. Aborting!

I did a emerge -u world but can't remember witch files I replaced, is there a log somewhere I can look at?

Thanx,
Stan

The Ennead · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 2:37 pm Post subject:

Is this the place for all those who don't pay attention when they're emerging -U :oops:

Looks like i'd better go and re-emerge kbd

/var/log/emerge.log is where you can find the list. It seems to work in reverse with most recent entries at the bottom.

Angry Geek · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 162 Location: .uk

I did exactly what you suggested, on restarting consolefont I get this and still no £

# /etc/init.d/consolefont restart
* WARNING: you are stopping a boot service.
* Setting user font...
putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument [ ok ]

Commenting out "CONSOLETRANSLATION" and restarting the service also gives this warning.

Any suggestions?
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iZm · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Coventry, UK

I do not know what the, "PIO_FONT invalid argument" is all about. Up to that point it looks good.

I did the same thing on a fresh Gentoo build just two days ago because I could not get the £ char in irssi (irc) on the console, and it was fine.

I am using kbd 1.0.8-r4 the same as you.

I have googled for that error and all I can find is a vague reference to setfont.
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Angry Geek · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 162 Location: .uk

ok thanks for having a look mate.

Aso If I run setfont directly if will come up with this warning.

Looking on google quite a few people have had similar issues with different distros, but they all seem to be international languages whereas I'm using good old English UK.

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occam2003 · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 9:34 pm Post subject: setfont executable was not found!

setfont is referred to in the consolefont script, which appears in /etc/init.d and /etc/runlevels/boot (in my system).
However, the reference is made to /bin/setfont - and my setfont executable is in /usr/bin/setfont
Easy way to solve the problem: copy /usr/bin/setfont to /bin/setfont
But is this "the right way"?

kritip

kritip · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject:

did you notice all but one of the posters in this thread are UK based, perhaps its location based??!!

Kristian

/EDIT -- I am Nuneaton, UK, haven't updated my profile yet!!!

teutzz · Guru Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 333 Location: .ro

same here, and i'm not in uk
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Hoek · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject:

same here with a "de" keymap.

Neither do my umlauts (or AltGr, Alt etc) work in console, nor in X. The problem started when emerging world a few days ago I believe..

glober