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

[Wolfgang Bornath]

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.

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wobo