Bug#759657: console-setup w/ systemd forgets font setting

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 03:47:24AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/90-setupcon.rules
> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="vtconsole", KERNEL=="vtcon*",
> RUN+="/bin/setupcon"

What does this do?  I mean when does the action "add" of "vtconsole" 
occur?  During the boot or when the user tries to access the console?

Is it possible that console-setup fails to setup the virtual consoles 
because they don't exist yet?  If yes, then how do we fix this?  Is a 
command such as "echo >/dev/tty5" going to help?

One of the things I have in my todo list for console-setup is to make it 
work during the initrd phase.  Therefore, it will be preferable if the 
setup of the console doesn't run setupcon directly but by means of the 
boot scripts in /etc/init.d because these scripts can check whether the 
initrd has set already the console up or not.

Anton Zinoviev