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

+ Colin Guthrie + mageia at colin.guthr.ie +
+ Wed Mar 7 00:47:36 CET 2012 +

+
+ +
'Twas brillig, and Luc Menut at 06/03/12 23:24 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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?
+
+Crap. I have too many tabs!!!
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4769
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
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