Bug#1040696: kbd: setfont doesn't set a default font

[Sven Grewe]

Package: kbd
Version: 2.5.1-1+b1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: sven...@posteo.de

Dear Maintainer,

If I type setfont into the console, I expect it to use the default font as
the manual says. It gives an error instead:

$ LANG=CC setfont
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages kbd depends on:
ii libc6 2.36-9

Versions of packages kbd recommends:
ii console-setup 1.221

kbd suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Andreas Henriksson]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 04:02:42PM +0200, Sven Grewe wrote:
> Package: kbd
> Version: 2.5.1-1+b1
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: sven...@posteo.de
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> If I type setfont into the console, I expect it to use the default font as
> the manual says. It gives an error instead:
>
> $ LANG=CC setfont
> Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console.

Given the $ and the error message, I assume this is a permission problem
on your side. Does it not work if you run it as a user that has access
to modify the console (eg. root)?

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson