Bug 2614

Summary:	The messages on boot screen have bad encoding
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	arnaud.patard, davidwhodgins, dmorganec, john.valsam, mageia, mageia, marja11, tmb
Version:	1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42506
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	initscripts	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Photo of messages during the boot

Description Dimitrios Glentadakis 2011-09-04 10:08:37 CEST

My system is in Greek locale and on boot the messages in Greek characters are shown as squares

I found this bug, it seems to be the same situation
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42506

I am not sure which information i have to supply from my system, please give me instructions.

Manuel Hiebel 2011-09-06 00:36:26 CEST

See Also: (none) => https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42506
Source RPM: (none) => iniscripts ?

Comment 1 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2011-09-11 12:02:52 CEST

i cant reproduce it every time, may be is something temporary (?)

Comment 2 Dave Hodgins 2011-09-12 02:26:46 CEST

Try turning off speedboot in
/etc/sysconfig/speedboot

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2011-11-25 15:35:05 CET

(In reply to comment #2)
> Try turning off speedboot in
> /etc/sysconfig/speedboot

@ Dimitrios

Did you try that?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11
Source RPM: iniscripts ? => initscripts ?

Comment 4 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2011-11-25 20:20:48 CET

i tried with SPEEDBOOT=no and after restart was ok but after shutdown and reboot the problem was present.

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2011-11-25 20:49:00 CET

thanks for your reply, Dimitrios

Do you mind attaching a picture?

Comment 6 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2011-11-25 21:19:15 CET

Created attachment 1115 [details]
Photo of messages during the boot

We can see the characters transformed to white squares

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2011-11-25 21:38:50 CET

thanks for the picture :)

@ blino

Can initscripts be the culprit?

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
CC: (none) => mageia
Source RPM: initscripts ? => initscripts

Comment 8 John Valsamopoulos 2011-11-25 22:55:46 CET

I can confirm the above "strange" behavior on boot messages in the Greek installation.
Also, that is not always reproducible.
My system is x86_64 KDE.

CC: (none) => john.valsam

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-22 18:08:13 CET

cc'ing some initscripts committers

CC: (none) => arnaud.patard, dmorganec, mageia, tmb

Comment 10 Marja Van Waes 2012-04-13 16:54:14 CEST

Is this bug still valid?

If so, is it also valid in cauldron?

Comment 11 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2012-04-16 13:39:02 CEST

In Mageia 1 it is still valid , i don't know in cauldron.

Comment 12 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2012-06-07 20:53:52 CEST

Now in Mageia 2 the messages are in English so there is no problem.
I prefer to have the boot messages untranslated, as it is now.

Comment 13 Marja Van Waes 2012-06-10 17:48:13 CEST

(In reply to comment #12)
> Now in Mageia 2 the messages are in English so there is no problem.
> I prefer to have the boot messages untranslated, as it is now.

Since you're OK with how it is in Mageia 2:

Are you OK with closing this Mageia 1 bug as WONTFIX?

Comment 14 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2012-06-10 17:59:26 CEST

Yes of course, there is no problem for me.

Comment 15 Marja Van Waes 2012-06-10 18:53:06 CEST

(In reply to comment #14)
> Yes of course, there is no problem for me.

Thx, Dimitrios :)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX