troubleshooting
Systemd
vconsole
From dmesg
, the following information was reported for the systemd-vconsole-setup
unit:
Aug 26 18:48:33 archlinux systemd-vconsole-setup[248]: /usr/bin/loadkeys failed with exit status 1.
Aug 26 18:48:33 archlinux systemd-vconsole-setup[248]: KD_FONT_OP_GET failed while trying to get the font metadata: Invalid argument
Aug 26 18:48:33 archlinux systemd-vconsole-setup[248]: Fonts will not be copied to remaining consoles
Aug 26 18:48:33 archlinux systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 26 18:48:33 archlinux systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 26 18:48:33 archlinux systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtual Console Setup.
The /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
had the following HOOKS
:
HOOKS=(base systemd plymouth autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck)
Adding sd-vconsole
in the list fixed the problem:
HOOKS=(base systemd plymouth autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard sd-vconsole fsck)
Then run sudo mkinitcpio -P
.