Bug#1129276: systemd: Still not working 260~rc2-1

[Gianpaolo Cugola]

I may confirm the same behaviour. I run debian sid with Cinnamon and lightdm, all ttys except tty1 disappeared after updating systemd, a few days ago, and version 260~rc2-1 did not fixed the issue.

Regards
   G.

On Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:40:04 +0000 Roland Clobus <rclobus at rclobus.nl> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 260~rc2-1
> Followup-For: Bug #1129276
> X-Debbugs-Cc: rclobus at rclobus.nl
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Unfortunately, the extra tty terminals are still not started automatically.
> 
> See the live images based on sid (running on openQA):
> https://openqa.debian.net/tests/503933
> https://openqa.debian.net/tests/503597
> 
> After a fresh boot (using a GNOME desktop):
> ```
> user at debian:~$ systemctl | grep tty
>   sys-devices-platform-serial8250-serial8250:0-serial8250:0.1-tty-ttyS1.device                                  loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/serial8250:0/serial8250:0.1/tty/ttyS1
>   sys-devices-platform-serial8250-serial8250:0-serial8250:0.2-tty-ttyS2.device                                  loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/serial8250:0/serial8250:0.2/tty/ttyS2
>   sys-devices-platform-serial8250-serial8250:0-serial8250:0.3-tty-ttyS3.device                                  loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/serial8250:0/serial8250:0.3/tty/ttyS3
>   sys-devices-pnp0-00:00-00:00:0-00:00:0.0-tty-ttyS0.device                                                     loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/pnp0/00:00/00:00:0/00:00:0.0/tty/ttyS0
>   system-getty.slice                                                                                            loaded active active    Slice /system/getty
>   getty.target                                                                                                  loaded active active    Login Prompts
> ```
> 
> In the journal:
> ```
> Mar 06 10:35:03 debian systemd-logind[1281]: Failed to start autovt at tty3.service: Unit autovt at tty3.service not found.
> Mar 06 10:35:09 debian sudo[3813]:     user : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/user ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl start getty at tty3.service
> ```
> 
> After `sudo systemctl start getty at tty3.service` I was able to switch to tty3.
> 
> Here is a direct link to the live ISO image: https://openqa.debian.net/admin/assets?search=gnome_sid_20260305T081219Z.iso
> 
> With kind regards,
> Roland Clobus
> 
> -- Package-specific info:
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: forky/sid
>   APT prefers sid
>   APT policy: (500, 'sid'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.18.15+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages systemd depends on:
> ii  libc6              2.42-13
> ii  libssl3t64         3.5.5-1
> ii  libsystemd-shared  260~rc2-1
> ii  libsystemd0        260~rc2-1
> ii  mount              2.41.3-4
> 
> Versions of packages systemd recommends:
> ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]   1.16.2-4