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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Minimum install of cauldron don't start console</H1>
<B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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<I>Tue Mar 6 14:52:14 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>2012/3/6 Pascal Terjan <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">pterjan at gmail.com</A>>:
><i> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 13:23, Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 06/03/12 12:38 did gyre and gimble:
</I>>>><i> * Colin Guthrie (<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>) wrote:
</I>>>>><i> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 06/03/12 09:24 did gyre and gimble:
</I>>>>>><i> Hi there,
</I>>>>>><i>
</I>>>>>><i> I just try to install a cauldron to setup a test IPv6 firewall/router.
</I>>>>>><i> To setup server I do a minimum install:
</I>>>>>><i> - /boot on its own partition
</I>>>>>><i> - /var /tmp and swap on lvm
</I>>>>>><i> - select no packages categories but yes install doc
</I>>>>>><i> - no post configuration, so no X11 (hey it's a server)
</I>>>>>><i>
</I>>>>>><i> At boot the system started but stop to "starting display manager" (??)
</I>>>>>><i> and I were unable to reach any text terminal.
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> No text terminal at all? Not on tty2 or 3?
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Indeed, alt + F2 show the login prompt. But before I pressed alt + F2 ps
</I>>>><i> was not showing any "*getty" program, a bit confusing, especially since
</I>>>><i> there is nothing on first console.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> If you try and start dm (prefdm.service) then you will NOT get a tty1
</I>>>>><i> getty (prefdm.service conflicts with <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">getty at tty1.service</A>), but all other
</I>>>>><i> tty's should be fine (handled by <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">autovt at .service</A>)
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Maybe, but I never asked to have prefdm and in fact I don't want X
</I>>>><i> terminal.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> They why are you booting to a graphical target?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> >From what I read, because that's what was done during installation
</I>><i>
</I>><i> prefdm shouldn't be there on installs without X
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> Check your /etc/systemd/system/default.target and if it's a symlink to
</I>>><i> runlevel5.target or graphical.target then this is your problem.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> You should instead symlink it to multi-user.target or runlevel3.target.
</I>>><i>
</I>>>><i> All sys admin expect to have a tty on first console and just having
</I>>>><i> "starting dm service" whereas I know it cannot start is really
</I>>>><i> confusing.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Sorry not sure what you mean?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> When you install a new machine (without X) and boot it, you expect to
</I>><i> be given a login prompt
</I>
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
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