vt2-6 still not available with base system

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Samuel

Am 08.11.2014 um 12:54 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just checked this morning with the latest netboot, when installing
> just the base system with no task, dbus does not get installed, and thus
> vt2-6 do not have a login banner because systemd-logind needs dbus for
> that.
> 
> In 758111, systemd was made to recommend dbus so that it works on system
> upgrade, and in 759293 dbus was made priority standard in the archive.
> 
> But this is not enough for making d-i install dbus on just a base
> system.  Just to make sure we agree on this: do we want to install dbus
> in a base system without the standard task?  It's not very big: 1MiB
> installed files.  It is also getting more and more used by basic things
> in the system.  And not getting vt2-6 working on a base system is a bit
> ew.

Running
 for i in `seq 2 6` ; do systemctl enable getty at tty$i.service; done
on a system without dbus, would statically enable a getty on vt2-6.
So we could simply document this fact (in README.Debian, release notes etc).

The alternative would be, to bump dbus to priority standard, so it's
installed by default (on new installations). I think Simon wasn't to
keen on raising the prio of dbus further. I've CCed him for his input.

A third idea would be to have a generator, which creates the
getty at tty$i.service symlinks in /run/systemd/system/getty.target.wants
Implementing that in shell, would only take a couple of lines.

We should be careful though, to add yet another generator.




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