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

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Wed Aug 21 14:17:02 PDT 2013


On 08/21/2013 06:40 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 08/21/2013 02:53 AM, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>> 'Twas brillig, and Ben Greear at 20/08/13 22:46 did gyre and gimble:
>>>> Does anyone know what package or thing was doing the
>>>> text prompt on the serial console?
>>>
>>> It happens automatically based on kernel command line params as far as I
>>> know...
>>
>> Check:
>>    $ cat /proc/cmdline
>> if there is console=, if yes, then something probably added this to
>> your boot loader config.
>
> No, I understand perfectly why serial console is active.  I want to know
> what thing is doing that initial config logic instead of a normal
> login prompt.  I want to manually force the initial config logic to
> run and/or just disable it with some sort of script so that users
> don't *have* to connect to the serial console to get a login prompt
> at runlevel 3.
>
> I'll go grep the file system today and try to find it...

Looks like I hit this bug in the initial-setup package:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979174

I left a comment in that bug...hopefully the next person will have
a quicker time finding the root cause!.

Thanks,
Ben


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