[Mageia-dev] Minimum install of cauldron don't start console

Tue Mar 6 14:35:33 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 06/03/12 12:38 did gyre and gimble:
+>> No text terminal at all? Not on tty2 or 3?
+> 
+> Indeed, alt + F2 show the login prompt. But before I pressed alt + F2 ps
+> was not showing any "*getty" program, a bit confusing, especially since
+> there is nothing on first console.
+
+Just to expand on this point.
+
+getty's are started on demand these days. It's done by autovt at .service.
+
+If you want to configure static gettys then you can do so easily enough
+(just symlink /lib/systemd/system/getty*.service as
+/etc/systemd/systemd/multi-user.target.wants/getty at tty2.service to get a
+static getty on tty2.
+
+But if your system is typically a graphical system, then why bother
+stating it statically and have it running all the time using resources.
+Auto-activation seems fine as a default setup to me.
+
+
+Now, the problem you seemed to get was that no dm was installed and thus
+the /etc/X11/prefdm script reached the end.
+
+IMO we very much DO want to have something done at the end of this
+script to give the user some help. This might include stopping
+prefdm.service via systemd and starting the tty, or perhaps better,
+showing some specific help (either text, or via plymouth or similar).
+
+This is something that I've suggested in a bug, but no feedback on that
+idea yet:
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4750
+
+Please do add comments on that bug.
+
+Col
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