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 GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
