[Bug 1675805] Re: Friendly recovery uses invalid font

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This bug was fixed in the package friendly-recovery - 0.2.35

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friendly-recovery (0.2.35) experimental; urgency=medium

  * friendly-recovery.service: trigger and settle udevadm before
    launching, drop broken settle down commands. Thanks to Alkis
    Georgopoulos. LP: #1675805
  * system-summary: improve cpu_freq reading, and make the script
    resilient to failures of reading cpu_freq. LP: #1675824

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:04:51
+0100

** Changed in: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  Friendly recovery uses invalid font

Status in friendly-recovery package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  There are a lot of similar bug reports for this, but they all seem stalled.
  Here's a specific issue with a proposed one-line patch that works.

  When I boot my Ubuntu 16.04.2 and select recovery mode, the menu text
  is unreadable, showing boxes instead of characters, like console-setup
  hasn't ran, while it did.

  Then I edit /lib/recovery-mode/recovery-menu and insert the following line at the top:
  udevadm trigger && udevadm settle -t 10

  After I reboot, the problem is gone.

  I'll attach two screenshots, "before.png" and "after.png", showing the
  issue.

  Some info for my localization setup; but it shouldn't matter, it should be the same in any locale.
  $ cat /etc/default/locale 
  LANG="el_GR.UTF-8"
  $ cat /etc/default/console-setup 
  ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
  CHARMAP="UTF-8"
  CODESET="guess"
  FONTFACE="Fixed"
  FONTSIZE="8x16"
  VIDEOMODE=

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