Update: strace indicates it can find my file, but ignores it?
# ls -ld /etc/default/console-setup.small
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 Apr 3 18:20 /etc/default/console-setup.small
# strace -etrace=file setupcon --font-only --verbose small
execve("/bin/setupcon", ["setupcon", "--font-only", "--verbose", "small"],
[/* 19 vars */]) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
stat("/root", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=238, ...}) = 0
stat(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=238, ...}) = 0
open("/bin/setupcon", O_RDONLY) = 3
stat("/bin", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1370, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/default/keyboard.small", 0x7fff0d5f00a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
stat("/etc/default/console-setup.small", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=77,
...}) = 0
stat("/root/.console-setup.small", 0x7fff0d5f00a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
stat("/usr/etc/default/keyboard.small", 0x7fff0d5f0070) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
setupcon: None of /usr/etc/default/keyboard.small nor
/root/.console-setup.small exists.
I noticed when I deployed this jessie host, that it was more picky
(than squeeze) about having some variables in /etc/default/keyboard
and some in /etc/default/console-setup. Maybe for a variant to work
in /etc, I have to have BOTH files?
# cat >console-setup.small
FONTFACE="Terminus"
FONTSIZE="12x6"
# cat >keyboard.small
XKBOPTIONS="altwin:ctrl_win,ctrl:nocaps"
# setupcon --font-only small
We are not on the console, the console is left unconfigured.
OK, so that works. The issues I see are:
1. this behaviour is not obvious from the --help, manpage, and error;
2. if I ask for -f it shouldn't care about keyboard.VARIANT; and
3. likewise for -k and console-setup.VARIANT.
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