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

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:35:35 -0700
Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> пишет:

> On 08/19/2013 07:39 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > В Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:59:23 -0700
> > Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> пишет:
> >
> >> 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).
> >>
> >
> > Do you use plymouth?
> >
> 
> Not exactly on purpose, but I think it is installed..I see mentions in the
> logs.
> 

The first symptom sounds similar to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66824 (I hit this on openSUSE 12.3).