I've just set up a new box with FC1+updates and the latest Stable Asterisk from CVS. Asterisk is started with the default safe_asterisk script with a console on TTY9. The coloured text on this console is made up of weird characters instead of normal. Please see http://www.softins.co.uk/dsc00018.jpg for an example. If I do "asterisk -rvvvvv" on a normal login, either via the console or an xterm, the text appears correctly. Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this and how to fix it? Thanks Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony@softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony@mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org
Kristian Kielhofner
2005-Feb-28 14:03 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Strange text on Asterisk console
Tony Mountifield wrote:> I've just set up a new box with FC1+updates and the latest Stable > Asterisk from CVS.Why are you using FC1 when FC3 is out? Better yet, why are you using FCx at all?> Asterisk is started with the default safe_asterisk script with a > console on TTY9. > > The coloured text on this console is made up of weird characters > instead of normal. Please see http://www.softins.co.uk/dsc00018.jpg > for an example. > > If I do "asterisk -rvvvvv" on a normal login, either via the console > or an xterm, the text appears correctly. > > Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this and how to fix it? > > Thanks > Tony-- Kristian Kielhofner
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:58:48 +0000 (UTC), Tony Mountifield wrote> I've just set up a new box with FC1+updates and the latest Stable > Asterisk from CVS. > > Asterisk is started with the default safe_asterisk script with a > console on TTY9. > > The coloured text on this console is made up of weird characters > instead of normal. Please see http://www.softins.co.uk/dsc00018.jpg > for an example. > > If I do "asterisk -rvvvvv" on a normal login, either via the console > or an xterm, the text appears correctly. >For some reason it appears that the program is using Cyrilic characters. You should see if the init.d script you are using to start Asterisk is changing the default font set from ISO-8859-1 to -5 or something else. Maybe when you installed Fedora you checked that you wanted support for Russian. -- Carlos Chavez Director de Tecnolog?a Telecomunicaciones Abiertas de M?xico S.A. de C.V. Tel: +52-55-91169161 Ext 2001
Nathan C. Smith
2005-Feb-28 14:49 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Re: Strange text on Asterisk console
The point is, only the coloured text is affected: the normal text is OK. Anyone actually seen this behaviour before? Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony@softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony@mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org _______________________________________________ I've seen it (* 1.0.5 & FC3), and thought it a curiosity. Does asterisk@home do it too (alt-F9 anyone?)? -Nate
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 08:58:48PM +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:> I've just set up a new box with FC1+updates and the latest Stable > Asterisk from CVS. > > Asterisk is started with the default safe_asterisk script with a > console on TTY9. > > The coloured text on this console is made up of weird characters > instead of normal. Please see http://www.softins.co.uk/dsc00018.jpg > for an example. > > If I do "asterisk -rvvvvv" on a normal login, either via the console > or an xterm, the text appears correctly. > > Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this and how to fix it?Yup. Your console translation is not set up well. Happened to me on Mandrake and on Debian as well. Try editing something in vim with syntax hilighting, you should get basically the same symptoms. Try e.g: vim +:h (press ZZ twice to exit). Does fedora have consoletools or kdb? If consoletools then the right parameter to consolechars -m may be useful. unicode_start may also be useful. I'm not so fluent with Fedora's setup but what is the output of the following: locale cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n Anyway, if the test with vim shows the same issues than this is an OS problem, and you better ask on Fedora mailing lists and such. -- Tzafrir Cohen | New signature for new address and | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | new homepage | a Mutt's tzafrir@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849755 | Space reserved for other protocols | friend
Albert Chaffman
2005-Mar-11 15:26 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Re: Strange text on Asterisk console
I have also had this problem with every FC1 box I have built and run Asterisk on. I usually don't touch the console of linux boxes, but it would be nice to just ALT-F9 and leave that console up eternally. But I got the same unreadable text for the colored text, and sometimes even non colored lines. This is what I did to resolve this. Edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n and change the SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" to SYSFONT="lat0-sun16". This worked for me in the US. If you look in /lib/kbd/consolefonts you will see a listing of all the console fonts that FC1 comes with. -Albert Chaffman -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tony Mountifield Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 4:43 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Strange text on Asterisk console In article <20050228211504.M96211@telecomabmex.com>, Carlos Chavez <cursor@telecomabmex.com> wrote:> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:58:48 +0000 (UTC), Tony Mountifield wrote > > I've just set up a new box with FC1+updates and the latest Stable > > Asterisk from CVS. > > > > Asterisk is started with the default safe_asterisk script with a > > console on TTY9. > > > > The coloured text on this console is made up of weird characters > > instead of normal. Please see http://www.softins.co.uk/dsc00018.jpg > > for an example. > > > > If I do "asterisk -rvvvvv" on a normal login, either via the console > > or an xterm, the text appears correctly. > > > For some reason it appears that the program is using Cyriliccharacters.> You should see if the init.d script you are using to start Asterisk is > changing the default font set from ISO-8859-1 to -5 or something else. > Maybe when you installed Fedora you checked that you wanted supportfor> Russian.No, when I installed the OS, I selected only English(Great Britain). Only some of the characters appear to be Cyrillic. The point is, only the coloured text is affected: the normal text is OK. Anyone actually seen this behaviour before? Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony@softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony@mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users