Bug#760947: systemd: Does not start consoles configured in /etc/inittab

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: systemd
Version: 208-8
Severity: normal

Hello,

On a wheezy system, I had a serial console configured in /etc/inittab,
used as a secondary work terminal (i.e. no console=ttyS0 on the kernel
command line). After an upgrade to Jessie, logind doesn't start a getty
on ttyS0.

Steps to reproduce:

- install Wheezy
- uncomment ttyS0 line from /etc/inittab
- init q, login appears on ttyS0
- upgrade to Jessie
- reboot, login doesn't appear on ttyS0

The same happens with supplementary terminals configured in
/etc/inittab:

7:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -8 38400 tty7
8:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -8 38400 tty8

etc.

On a freshly installed Jessie system, /etc/inittab still gets installed,
but has no effect. That will be very surprising to admins.

Samuel

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl                  2.2.52-1.1
ii  adduser              3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts          2.88dsf-53.4
ii  libacl1              2.2.52-1.1
ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.7-1
ii  libblkid1            2.20.1-5.8
ii  libc6                2.19-9
ii  libcap2              1:2.24-4
ii  libcap2-bin          1:2.24-4
ii  libcryptsetup4       2:1.6.6-1
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.6-2
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.4-3
ii  libkmod2             18-1
ii  liblzma5             5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g             1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1          2.3-1
ii  libsystemd-daemon0   208-8
ii  libsystemd-journal0  208-8
ii  libsystemd-login0    208-8
ii  libudev1             208-8
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-25
ii  sysv-rc              2.88dsf-53.4
ii  udev                 208-8
ii  util-linux           2.20.1-5.8

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  libpam-systemd  208-8

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed:
[Login]
HandleLidSwitch=lock


-- no debconf information

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