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

[Luc Menut]

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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