[systemd-devel] Machinectl shell/login do not attach to console

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 16.10.15 14:01, Chris Bell (cwbell at narmos.org) wrote:

> On 2015-10-16 13:55, Chris Bell wrote:
> >On 2015-10-14 15:58, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >>On Mon, 05.10.15 12:30, Chris Bell (cwbell at narmos.org) wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>I have an Arch machine with systemd 226, running an Arch container,
> >>>also
> >>>with systemd 226. For whatever reason in 225, `machinectl login`
> >>>stopped
> >>>working correctly, and in 226 `machinectl login` does not work
> >>>properly. It
> >>>attaches to the machine, but does not seem to redirect stdin and
> >>>stdout to
> >>>the machine. When I attempt to use login, the login prompt is never
> >>>printed
> >>>to the command line:
> >>
> >>There were some races when machinectl was too fast and the systemd
> >>inside the container too slow. This should be fixed in systemd git,
> >>specifically commit 40e1f4ea7458a0a80eaf1ef356e52bfe0835412e and
> >>related.
> >
> >I've recompiled from git, and the problem has, indeed, been solved! Thank
> >you!
> 
> Sorry, I was wrong. I was running 'machinectl shell' without a machine name,
> and it spawned a shell for my host machine. Guest machine still cannot be
> accessed with 'shell' or 'login' and stdin/out are still redirected to the
> journal.
> 
> I compiled commit 7a1e5abbc6e741e5b6995288c607522faa69c8b4 (Master) from the
> github repo.

You have to upgrade systemd, machined and nspawn in the container as
well as on the host, and ensure you reexec all three of these
components. Otherwise the fix has no effect.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat