Bug 592212

Summary:	inittab - getty is not started
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Thomas Renninger <trenn>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P2 - High
Version:	Milestone 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	upstart job for agetty on ttyS0

Description Thomas Renninger 2010-03-30 10:16:20 UTC

This line in inittab:
S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 57600 ttyS0 vt102
seem to not get recognized, while it worked fine with older distri versions.

Starting it manually works and I get a serial login:
/sbin/agetty -L 57600 ttyS0 vt102

telinit q
does not help.

Comment 1 Thomas Siedentopf 2010-03-30 10:39:39 UTC

'telinit q' is depreciated by the initctl program since we are using upstart now. However according to my knowledge there should be some kind of System-V init compatibility but for some reasons the inittab file is not regarded at least for getty and agetty processes.

Comment 2 Thomas Siedentopf 2010-03-30 12:29:03 UTC

Created attachment 351409 [details]
upstart job for agetty on ttyS0

Comment 3 Thomas Siedentopf 2010-03-30 12:30:02 UTC

gettys will be started via the upstart job /etc/init/start-ttys.conf and /etc/init/tty.conf, currently there is no sample config for serial lines.
I have attached a job description for an agetty on ttyS0. Copy this file to /etc/init and execute 'initctl start start-agetty-ttyS0.conf' and everything should be fine. I will also integrate this into our ARCH internal setup scripts for 11.3

Comment 4 Ruediger Oertel 2010-04-01 00:31:01 UTC

upstart -> coolo

Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2010-05-18 11:23:56 UTC

reverted opensuse back to sysvinit (see http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2010-05/msg00168.html)