[systemd-devel] systemd, getty and udev

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Monday 2011-03-21 12:26, Michael Olbrich wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've been playing with systemd. So far I have been unable to get a login
>prompt. The problem is this:
>
>[...]
>systemd[1]: Job dev-ttyAMA0.device/start timed out.
>systemd[1]: Job dev-ttyAMA0.device/start finished, result=timeout
>systemd[1]: Job serial-getty at ttyAMA0.service/start finished, result=dependency
>[...]

This is reminiscient of 
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679165

The default systemd files only start getties on a handful of ttys. Since 
it seems impossible to distinguish between display ttys and e.g. modem 
ttys, one can't just simply start gettys on all tty*, thus necessiting 
manual addition for further ttys in the udev rules.

>/dev/ttyAMA0 exists. But dev-ttyAMA0.device is never finished. I looked at
>the code, and I think udev is supposed to trigger this, right?
>However, udevd is never started. And I couldn't find anything related to
>starting udevd.