[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Thu Mar 8 15:11:29 CET 2012


'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 08/03/12 13:06 did gyre and gimble:
>> Yup! This should have happened earlier (in fact I thought it was already
>> asking you that but with the sysvinit package called just "sysvinit" but
>> it seems we needed to rename it to get urpmi to really do the right thing.
>>
>> Due to the vendor list, it should prefer the systemd version and thus
>> pick it by default for you or use it without question if you pass --auto.
> 
> Thx, after I selected '1' urpmi told me that the package sysvinit is
> going to be uninstalled.
> After installing 440 updates (including kernel) and reboot system
> comes up fine without any failure messages.
> Desktop (KDE) is on tty1, using ctrl+Alt+F2 (-F6) takes me to a text
> login on tty2-6 as expected.

Lovely.

> tty7-11 are not accessible, tty12 shows syslog messages.

Yeah, this is expected. If you like, you can configure getty's on
tty7-11 if you set the NAutoVTs= to 11 (rather than the default of 6) in
/etc/systemd/systemd-logind.conf

Col




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