[Mageia-dev] systemd vs dm

Sun Sep 18 01:28:47 CEST 2011

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:59:13 +0000
+Dick Gevers <dvgevers at xs4all.nl> wrote:
+
+> On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:38:56 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote about Re:
+> [Mageia-dev] systemd vs dm:
+> 
+> >Yeah, please open a bug against initscripts (feel free to assign it to
+> >me) just so it's not forgotten.
+> 
+> For the record (you already found it):
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2760
+> 
+
+Well, i have set SPEEDBOOT=no, installed sysvinit to replace systemd-sysvinit,
+and still GDM does strange things.
+Right after boot, it does not allow to switch to any vt, and even if you
+do it, sometimes hangs.
+I see this in messages:
+
+Sep 18 01:14:37 one /sbin/mingetty[3285]: tty2: invalid character 0xbc in login name
+
+If I restart gdm (via an ssh session), I can see that tty2 has a couple lines of
+garbage after the login prompt.
+
+It looks like gdm tries to use tty2, and bangs against mingetty, see that tty2
+session is the last:
+
+root      3284     1  0 01:14 tty1     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
+root      3286     1  0 01:14 tty3     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
+root      3287     1  0 01:14 tty4     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
+root      3288     1  0 01:14 tty5     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
+root      3289     1  0 01:14 tty6     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
+root      3504     1  0 01:14 tty2     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
+root      7402  7399  0 01:21 tty8     00:00:00 /etc/X11/X :0 -br -verbose -logverbose 7 -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-LD0qed/database -nolisten tcp
+
+How could I add the option 'vt7' to the X server command line ? New gdm
+custom.conf does not support the [servers] section I planned to use
+(from what I have been able to read).
+
+A workaround should be to hardcode, even in sources if needed, the option
+to use vt7. It is no so dangerous, even systemd makes tty7 the mandatory
+X target as it has a conflict in gdm for tty7...
+
+I also have noticed that systemd uses agetty, and /etc/inittab uses mingetty.
+To really compare things and rule aout any bugs, both should be the same...
+
+Any ideas ?
+