dracut: i18n_vars not set! Please set up i18n_vars in configuration file.

[barmadrid]

I'm setting console font in kernel parameters via /etc/dracut.conf.d/myconf.conf using: kernel_cmdline="rd.vconsole.keymap=us rd.vconsole.font=ter-v22b"

The efi image is generated with: dracut --force --uefi /boot/linux.efi

During build I see the following messages:

dracut: i18n_vars not set!  Please set up i18n_vars in  configuration file.
dracut: No KEYMAP configured.

Although the font get applied on boot regardless of messages above, the image does not contain /etc/vconsole.conf as described in DRACUT.CMDLINE(7):

rd.vconsole.font= console font; taken from consolefonts directory; will be written as FONT to /etc/vconsole.conf in the initramfs.

Is this normal or am I missing something?

[danimo]

Do the binaries setfont, loadkeys and kbd_mode exist on your machine? is the i18n module part of your initrd? (check with lsinitrd)

[barmadrid]

Do the binaries setfont, loadkeys and kbd_mode exist on your machine? is the i18n module part of your initrd? (check with lsinitrd)

@danimo Yes all three exists on my machine and also in the initrd image under /usr/bin. Yes, i18n module is included too.

[johannbg]

@barmadrid what distro is this, what release of dracut and could you double check and see if the keymap and font actually exist on the initrd ( highly unlikely that the us keymap is missing but ter-v22b.psf.gz might ).

[barmadrid]

@johannbg The distro is Arch Linux and dracut version is 050 Yes, keymap is present and also the font:

$ lsinitrd /boot/linux.efi | less
:
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        34557 Jun 29 12:28 usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/ter-v22b.psf
:

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[barmadrid]

I can confirm that I'm still experiencing this in 051.

[haraldh]

Fedora ships with /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/01-dist.conf:

# dracut config file customized for RedHat/Fedora.

# i18n
i18n_vars="/etc/sysconfig/keyboard:KEYTABLE-KEYMAP /etc/sysconfig/i18n:SYSFONT-FONT,FONTACM-FONT_MAP,FONT_UNIMAP"
i18n_default_font="eurlatgr"
i18n_install_all="yes"


stdloglvl=3
sysloglvl=5
install_optional_items+=" vi /etc/virc ps grep cat rm "
prefix="/"
systemdutildir=/usr/lib/systemd
systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system
systemdsystemconfdir=/etc/systemd/system
udevdir=/usr/lib/udev
hostonly="yes"
hostonly_cmdline="no"
early_microcode="yes"
reproducible="yes"

Your distro seems to be missing such file

[barmadrid]

The paths to consolefonts and keymaps in Arch are:

/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts /usr/share/kbd/keymaps

I included that in i18n_vars, trying different combination as mentioned in dracut/modules.d/10i18n/README with no success!

Not sure at this point!

[deimosian]

I do not think this is a bug.

I never paid much attention to the error as it didn't negatively affect anything, but changing my conf file in /etc/dracut.conf.d/ from this:

# Hide all systemd messages at startup
kernel_cmdline="quiet"
# Use hostonly to exclude unnecessary modules, but do not include the hostonly
# cmdline in the image, because at the time of writing it has a few issues with
# discoverable partitions.
# See <https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/issues/723#issuecomment-792248568>
hostonly="yes"
hostonly_cmdline="no"

To this:

# i18n
i18n_vars="/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts  /usr/share/kbd/keymaps"
# Hide all systemd messages at startup
kernel_cmdline="quiet"
# Use hostonly to exclude unnecessary modules, but do not include the hostonly
# cmdline in the image, because at the time of writing it has a few issues with
# discoverable partitions.
# See <https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/issues/723#issuecomment-792248568>
hostonly="yes"
hostonly_cmdline="no"

Eliminated the error.

[haraldh]

Please read chapter 2.2 of the i18n module README.

[LaszloGombos]

Closing..

@barmadrid Please let us know if you think dracut does not work as it intended/documented.