[SOLVED] Console font resets to default after reboot

[suavedandy]

I wanted to change the font to terminus. I edited /etc/default/console-setup, rebooted and everything worked fine. Next day I boot up my lvptop and see that my font went back to default. Tried doing everything from the beginning to no avail. Please, help.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I edited /etc/default/console-setup

It would be nice to know the exact nature of your editing.

Does this method work any better:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

[suavedandy]

I edited /etc/default/console-setup

It would be nice to know the exact nature of your editing.

Does this method work any better:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

This time the changes didn't need a reboot but were lost after a reboot regardless. It appears that setupcon changes the font only after you make changes to /etc/default/console-setup and reboot or call setupcon directly or inderectly (such as through dpkg-reconfigure).

[suavedandy]

I also checked whether that's the issue with me using BtrFS with compression and encryption at the same time. Reinstalled with no encryption or compression. Same results.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

This seems to be due to a bug in the console-setup-linux package. It supplies /etc/init.d/console-setup.sh and the post install script tries to enable it but that doesn't work for files with a .sh suffix. Fortunately your box should still have /etc/init.d/console-setup from the live system so you can get things working by running

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sudo update-rc.d console-setup defaults

We should probably report this as a bug but I doubt the Debian maintainer would accept a report from an MX Linux system and I don't want to use sysvinit in my buster box.

EDIT: using systemd instead of sysvinit should also get things working without having to use update-rc.d(8).

[suavedandy]

Fortunately your box should still have /etc/init.d/console-setup from the live system so you can get things working by running

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sudo update-rc.d console-setup defaults

Thank you, thank you, thank you! It worked perfectly!