vconsole: if KD_FONT_OP_SET fails (maybe because X11/wayland/some display manager are blocking tty7), debug log and proceed gracefully instead of failing fatally #6689
Description
Submission type
- Bug report
systemd version the issue has been seen with
Unsure
Used distribution
Unsure
In case of bug report: Expected behaviour you didn't see
See below
In case of bug report: Unexpected behaviour you saw
"[FAILED] Failed to start Setup Virtual Console."
eric@linux-epth:~$ sudo systemctl status systemd-vconsole-setup.service
[sudo] password for root:
● systemd-vconsole-setup.service - Setup Virtual Console
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2017-08-26 08:54:42 CDT; 1min 51s ago
Docs: man:systemd-vconsole-setup.service(8)
man:vconsole.conf(5)
Process: 441 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 441 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Aug 26 08:54:42 linux-epth systemd-vconsole-setup[441]: KD_FONT_OP_SET failed, fonts will not be copied to tty7: Invalid argument
Aug 26 08:54:42 linux-epth systemd[1]: Started Setup Virtual Console.
eric@linux-epth:~$ sudo systemctl start systemd-vconsole-setup.service
eric@linux-epth:~$ sudo systemctl status systemd-vconsole-setup.service
● systemd-vconsole-setup.service - Setup Virtual Console
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2017-08-26 08:57:03 CDT; 4s ago
Docs: man:systemd-vconsole-setup.service(8)
man:vconsole.conf(5)
Process: 2637 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 2637 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Aug 26 08:57:02 linux-epth systemd[1]: Starting Setup Virtual Console...
Aug 26 08:57:03 linux-epth systemd[1]: Started Setup Virtual Console.
eric@linux-epth:~$
In case of bug report: Steps to reproduce the problem
See above