[Mageia-dev] systemd vs dm

Thu Sep 15 07:26:33 CEST 2011

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:07:50 +0200
+Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+
+> Le 15/09/2011 06:53, JA Magallon a écrit :
+> > Hi...
+> >
+> > Well, I'm starting to fight systemd...
+> >
+> > First easy to describe problem (apart from many others I will try to spot...)
+> > dm starts before getty, finds the first usable tty (usually tty2), and gets
+> > that. Everything supposes it runs on tty7 (see conflicts in systemd units
+> > with getty at tty7 and so on...). If you restart dm, as it always tries
+> > to find the first free tty, it depends on which ttys you have tried to
+> > use to see where it starts.
+> >
+> > I have been looking where to put the 'vt7' option for Xorg, to force it
+> > there and make it independent of order, but as gdm has
+> > not a gdm.conf file anymore, everything is on gconf files in /var/lib/gdm,
+> > I've had no luck.
+> I don't think so, there is still a /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf 
+> configuration file.
+> 
+> > This is beginning to look like windows, we have a registry nobody understands
+> > and things happen and you don't know why (because my /var/log/messages is
+> > empty....0 size).
+> Check your syslog implementation service being enabled.
+
+one:~# systemctl list-units -a --full | grep log
+console-kit-log-system-start.service loaded active   exited        Console System Startup Logging
+netconsole.service        loaded inactive dead          LSB: Initializes network console logging
+systemd-kmsg-syslogd.service loaded active   running       Syslog Kernel Log Buffer Bridge
+systemd-logind.service    loaded active   running       Login Service
+systemd-stdout-syslog-bridge.service loaded active   running       STDOUT Syslog Bridge
+syslog.socket             loaded active   running       Syslog Socket
+systemd-stdout-syslog-bridge.socket loaded active   running       Stdio Syslog Bridge Socket
+syslog.target             loaded active   active        Syslog
+
+one:~# rpm -qa --nosignature *syslog*
+rsyslog-5.8.5-1.mga2
+
+one:~# service rsyslog status
+rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
+	  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; disabled)
+	  Active: inactive (dead)
+	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/rsyslog.service
+
+Ahh.....why the hell it did not appear with systemctl list-units -a ?
+
+After systemctl enable rsyslog.service:
+
+one:~# systemctl list-units -a --full | grep log
+console-kit-log-system-start.service loaded active   exited        Console System Startup Logging
+netconsole.service        loaded inactive dead          LSB: Initializes network console logging
+rsyslog.service           loaded inactive dead          System Logging Service
+systemd-kmsg-syslogd.service loaded active   running       Syslog Kernel Log Buffer Bridge
+systemd-logind.service    loaded active   running       Login Service
+systemd-stdout-syslog-bridge.service loaded active   running       STDOUT Syslog Bridge
+syslog.socket             loaded active   running       Syslog Socket
+systemd-stdout-syslog-bridge.socket loaded active   running       Stdio Syslog Bridge Socket
+syslog.target             loaded active   active        Syslog
+
+
+rebooting now....
+