KDFONTOP: Unable to load such font with such kernel version

koko · 4 July 2023 23:56

After waking from hibernation, system would hang at

setfont: KDFONTOP: Function not implemented

Booting older snapshots works, but when applying them and rebooting the error reappears. I used chroot to update the system, then added BINARIES=(setfont) to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuilt the initramfs. Now it hangs on

setfont: ERROR kdfontop.c:183 put_font_kdfontop: Unable to load such font with such kernel version `

I tried replacing plymouth-git with plymouth as this post suggests, but the same error occurs.

After that, I replaced plymouth with plymouth-git, then booted while temporarily disabling splash in grub. It booted, but to a black screen. I used

sudo systemctl enable --now sddm.service

in tty2, but the screen was still blank

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Running in chroot, ignoring command 'list-units'
Failed units:

not sure whats with the random 12s in inxi

NaN · 5 July 2023 03:34

Did you rebuild your initramfs following this change? The plymouth package requires that. Since you are using mkinitcpio to rebuild your initramfs along with setting the boot splash to dr460nized theme here:

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R dr460nized

Notice the -R flag invokes rebuilding of initramfs with mkinitcpio

Yeah, I wouldn’t do that it has been confirmed that the current plymouth-git package has some bug that prevents people from going past the loading initramfs page.

Though given you had disabled plymouth while booting I don’t think it would change much but still worth a try.

koko · 5 July 2023 04:52

Went back to using plymouth instead of plymouth-git as you said, but when installing plymouth it seems to build the initramfs automatically. I ran

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R dr460nized

just in case, but it still has the issue.

Booting when removing quiet from grub shows that it hangs on

Started Hostname Service

NaN · 5 July 2023 05:45

have you tried using a different kernel yet? use chroot to install the LTS kernel and see if that does something.

pacman -S linux-lts linux-lts-headers

filo · 5 July 2023 07:38

It should be this bug:

The Arch bug report seems to focus on kernel 6.4, so with the LTS it could work, but the upstream report seems to focus on the LTS kernel as well... Just try it.
Maybe an alternative could be to downgrade kbd.

koko · 5 July 2023 19:43

neither booting with LTS nor downgrading kbd seems to work. I also tried replacing the hooks keymap and consolefont with sd-vconsole in mkinitcpio.comf and regenerating initramfs as one of the comments on the arch bug says, but again no dice.

NaN · 5 July 2023 21:32

ok, this might not necessarily be the solution but how about switching from mkinitcpio to dracut? maybe that helps.

Enter chroot
Install garuda-dracut-support with

pacman -S garuda-dracut-support

It will mention conflicts with mkinitcpio and mark mkinitcpio's package for removal. Accept them all and move ahead with installing dracut.

Once done although pacman hooks should have covered it just to be extra safe rebuild your initramfs with

dracut-rebuild

then exit chroot and reboot to see if that makes any difference.
To know more about dracut

koko · 5 July 2023 23:20

Still gets stuck, though building is quicker and doesn't give me the possibly missing firmware warnings that mkinitcpio does

NaN · 6 July 2023 11:55

Can you tell me to what version of kbd did you downgrade to? I am currently on 2.6.1-1 as of updating my system on 02-jul-2023.

If that’s what you are on as well how about downgrading the kernel and it’s headers this time? Although not recommended in this situation where even snapshots don’t work I believe having a working system is of more importance.

Try downgrading both linux-zen and linux-zen-headers to version 6.3.9.zen1-1

koko · 6 July 2023 20:47

I tried downgrading kbd to both 2.5.1-2 and 2.6.0-1, I was on 2.6.1-1 when the issue started.

I switched back to 2.6.1-1 then downgraded the kernel and again it gets stuck while booting.

NaN · 7 July 2023 05:28

Hmm this is getting strange. I am sorry for asking this instead of just looking at your inxi but can you tell me if you have a hybrid graphics setup? I am sorry but your inxi is just... a little unreadable. I saw nvidia graphics card on your inxi and AMD CPU. So if you have a hybrid graphics setup are you using your nvidia card to boot into your system by default? If so can you try using your integrated graphics instead. This could just be a nvidia problem.

koko · 7 July 2023 06:47

I just have a gpu, no integrated graphics.

NaN · 7 July 2023 10:45

Yeah I am suspecting this to be a nvidia drivers

I noticed that you are using version 520.56.06 for your nvidia drivers. Unless you have specifically added the nvidia drivers to IgnorePkg for some reason. Can you try and see if upgarding your drivers does the trick. As of writing this post my nvidia driver version is at 535.54.03.

from chroot

garuda-update -- garuda-nvidia-prime-config --ignore=linux-zen,linux-zen-headers,kbd

should update your nvidia-dkms along with all the dependencies that this package has while avoiding the kernel updates.

If you had specifically blocked nvidia drivers from updating you could try to switch from your proprietary drivers to open source ones and see if that solves the issue

NaN · 7 July 2023 13:04

BTW, I completely forgot to ask this but what’s the last error you got with this one?

koko · 7 July 2023 18:42

It still wont boot with updated drivers. I never added nvidia drivers to IgnorePkg, so its weird that my last update missed them.

I ran garuda-update before that so it removed plymouth. The every time i’ve tried boothing regardless of setup it just gets stuck at loading different things, nothing specific

NaN · 7 July 2023 19:02

Sorry pal, can't really think of anything at this point all I can say is give a shot to the nouveau drivers. They are pre-installed you just need to search how to enable and use them instead of nvidia-dkms. If this too doesn't do anything then all I can say is switch back to nvidia-dkms (as proprietary driver works better with nvidia sadly) and wait for some updates upstream to fix it.

koko · 8 July 2023 00:04

Nouveau didn't work either . Anyway thank you for all your help!

bigo72 · 9 July 2023 20:22

Same problem here. I'm getting crazy. Anyway I'm able to boot, but I can see that error message splashing for few seconds before the login screen

LFOM · 12 July 2023 14:46

Anyone with this error may want to check the links giver earlier by @filo.

I also use a custom console font, and started to get this error when booting. After replacing keymap consolefont with sd-vconsole in HOOKS, as one user suggested in the GitHub page, the error is not displayed anymore while I am still able to use my custom console font and keyboard map normally. As a bonus, it seems that setfont is not needed in BINARIES anymore. I have also replaced udev with systemd since I was going to use sd-vconsole anyway as I have read elsewhere that this also speeds up the boot, and no issues so far.

DonDon · 20 July 2023 23:05

I followed the things @LFOM said, and I managed to get rid of all setfont comments, however the system still refuses to boot. Since I can't enter the tty I don't think it's because of the graphic drivers I had them broken on several occasions and tty worked just fine
I can enter the system using gurb, selecting the first position, but if I'm using refind or even another position in grub (same system) it freezes on a black screen