[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#612849: kbd: fgconsole prints '1' for machine with no video (only serial)

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: kbd
Version: 1.15.2-2
Severity: normal

acpi-support uses fgconsole to determine where the active console is.

/usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs expects it to return "serial" if the 
serial console is in use.

I'm currently using a kvm instance that has no graphics card (emulated 
or otherwise), only serial.  

however, fgconsole returns "1" instead of "serial" on this system,
which makes it so that sending an acpi signal (system_powerdown into
the kvm monitor) has no effect other than printing the following
message to syslog:

Feb 11 01:42:45 dirk polkitd[1029]: started daemon version 0.99 using authority implementation `local' version `0.99'
Feb 11 01:43:44 dirk powerbtn-acpi-support.sh: power-funcs: 'ps wt tty1 --no-headers' failure


acpi signals should not be ignored simply because i have no video card
in a machine.

If you think this is actually a bug in one of the other packages in
this chain, feel free to reassign to them so they know what's going
wrong.

Thanks for packaging kbd for debian,

    --dkg


-- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages kbd depends on:
ii  console-common                0.7.85     basic infrastructure for text cons
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-11  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-27     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages kbd recommends:
ii  console-data                  2:1.10-9   keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall

kbd suggests no packages.

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