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

[Ben Greear]

On 08/19/2013 05:53 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 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

This hangs, maybe forever, maybe just for a long time (1+ minutes).

>
> What does that print?
>    $ systemctl get-default

[root at ct520-128-6034 ~]# systemctl get-default
Unknown operation 'get-default'.

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

Looks clean to me:

[root at ct520-128-6034 ~]# fuser /dev/tty1
[root at ct520-128-6034 ~]#

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Kay
>


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