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

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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