Bug#760916: systemd: Does not start getty on first VT change after login

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Fri Dec 12 17:13:33 GMT 2014


control: retitle -1 brltty interferes with getty autostart

Am 11.11.2014 um 16:31 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> Samuel Thibault, le Sun 28 Sep 2014 17:26:37 +0200, a écrit :
>>> I tried the steps you outlined above but was not able to reproduce your
>>> problem.
>>> Can you reliably reproduce it?
>>
>> Yes, it is systematic on my box.
> 
> Still the case with kernel 3.17.
> 
> I have however got an idea: on my box I have the brltty daemon installed
> and running (even if I don't have a braille device).  If I remove the
> brltty daemon, I don't have the issue.
> 
> Among the things that brltty does which might be related, there are:
> 
> - it keeps /dev/vcsa open to access the content of the console,
> - it keeps /dev/tty0 open to be able to synthesize keypresses with
>   ioctl(TIOCSTI) for instance,
> - it keeps /dev/console open to be able to emit ioctl(KDMKTONE) for
>   instance.
> 
> Samuel
> 

Let's retitle the bug accordingly

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