[systemd-devel] Question on debugging getty 'runlevel 3' issue.

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
> I'm using Fedora 19 on a 32-bit dual-core Atom system.
>
> I installed Mate, various other packages, and among other configuration,
> tried to put the system into the equivalent of 'runlevel 3'.
>
> The system boots to black console as expected, but it will not
> give a prompt, except on 'alt F2' window.
>
> On clean bootup, if I ssh in, I there are no getty processes running:
>
> [root at ct520-128-6034 ~]# ps -auxww|grep getty
> root      2699  0.0  0.0   4940   860 pts/1    S+   15:03   0:00 grep
> --color=auto getty
>
>
> [root at ct520-128-6034 ~]# grep -i getty /var/log/messages
> [root at ct520-128-6034 ~]# ls -l /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 38 Jun 27 10:12 getty at tty1.service ->
> /usr/lib/systemd/system/getty at .service
>
> [root at ct520-128-6034 ~]# ls -l /usr/lib/systemd/system/getty at .service
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1662 Jun 24 08:30
> /usr/lib/systemd/system/getty at .service
>
> [root at ct520-128-6034 ~]# systemctl status getty at tty1.service
> getty at tty1.service - Getty on tty1
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty at .service; enabled)
>    Active: inactive (dead)
>      Docs: man:agetty(8)
>            man:systemd-getty-generator(8)
>            http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html

Try?
  $ systemctl isolate multi-user.target

What does that print?
  $ systemctl get-default

Are you sure there is nothing that has opened the device?
  $ sudo fuser /dev/tty1

Kay