[arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[Leonid Isaev]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:36:10AM +0000, niya levi via arch-general wrote:
> > hi everyone
> > after an install following the wiki installation guide and rebooting
> > the login  screen shows unreadable characters,
> > the char displays as rectangular and square blocks,
> > locale.conf is set to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> > vconsole.conf is set to KEYMAP=uk
> > i also tried adding a FONT= line to vconsole.conf while chrooted the but
> > no joy after rebooting,
> > the installation screen was fine.
> > any ideas ?
> 
> > ---- On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:08:06 +0100 Ralf Mardorf<silver.bullet at zoho.com
> > <https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general>> wrote ---- 
> >  > Which login screen? 
> >  >  
> >  > A display manager's greeter? If so, xorg.conf or display manager settings might solve the issue. 
> >
> > Oops, I was confusing keyboard with fonts. Not xorg.conf, but much likely the display manager configuration provides to chose a font.
> >
> >  >  
> >  > Or tty?
> >  > 
> sorry i mean the login at the console,
> 
> it a file server without xorg, display manger etc.
> 
> shadrock

Did you customize /etc/locale.gen and ran locale-gen?

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
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