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

Tue Mar 6 14:52:14 CET 2012

2012/3/6 Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>:
+> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 13:23, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 06/03/12 12:38 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> * Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
+>>>> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 06/03/12 09:24 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>>> Hi there,
+>>>>>
+>>>>> I just try to install a cauldron to setup a test IPv6 firewall/router.
+>>>>> To setup server I do a minimum install:
+>>>>> - /boot on its own partition
+>>>>> - /var /tmp and swap on lvm
+>>>>> - select no packages categories but yes install doc
+>>>>> - no post configuration, so no X11 (hey it's a server)
+>>>>>
+>>>>> At boot the system started but stop to "starting display manager" (??)
+>>>>> and I were unable to reach any text terminal.
+>>>>
+>>>> 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.
+>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> If you try and start dm (prefdm.service) then you will NOT get a tty1
+>>>> getty (prefdm.service conflicts with getty at tty1.service), but all other
+>>>> tty's should be fine (handled by autovt at .service)
+>>>
+>>> Maybe, but I never asked to have prefdm and in fact I don't want X
+>>> terminal.
+>>
+>> They why are you booting to a graphical target?
+>
+> >From what I read, because that's what was done during installation
+>
+> prefdm shouldn't be there on installs without X
+>
+>> Check your /etc/systemd/system/default.target and if it's a symlink to
+>> runlevel5.target or graphical.target then this is your problem.
+>>
+>> You should instead symlink it to multi-user.target or runlevel3.target.
+>>
+>>> All sys admin expect to have a tty on first console and just having
+>>> "starting dm service" whereas I know it cannot start is really
+>>> confusing.
+>>
+>> Sorry not sure what you mean?
+>
+> When you install a new machine (without X) and boot it, you expect to
+> be given a login prompt
+
+This is one of the major points. I'm one of the greybeards who were
+fed F1 along with baby food but I can learn. But what I expect in any
+case, be it an installation without X or a "normal" installation where
+X fails to start, I expect to be dropped at a login prompt.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+