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

Wed Mar 7 00:24:10 CET 2012

Le 06/03/2012 14:35, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> '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
+
+Bug 4750 - Unable to install Mageia beta 1 with raid ahci   ???
+
+are you sure it is this one?
+
+
+Luc
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