Re: systemd, getty and brltty
Mario Lang, on Sun 20 Dec 2015 20:21:26 +0100, wrote:
> Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> writes:
>
> > The current version of brltty in Jessie suffers from an issue with
> > systemd: systemd does not dare running getty on virtual consoles 2-6
> > because brltty is reading them. This is worked around in the latest
> > brltty 5.3 release, but we still have the issue in Jessie and brltty 5.3
> > is not to be uploaded there.
>
> I have seen this issue in the wild, however, I at least was easily
> able to work around it by temporarily switching back to tt1 and back to
> the target tty again. This apparently gave systemd enough of time to
> initialize the getty in the meantime.
Apparently this trick is not working so well for some users. They
sometimes never manage to get another getty than on VT1. I do have this
kind of issue, at least.
> > One work around could be to make the brltty package run this at
> > postinst:
> >
> > ln -s /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty2.service
> > ln -s /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty3.service
> > ln -s /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty4.service
> > ln -s /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty5.service
> > ln -s /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty6.service
>
> >
> > to force the start of getty even when brltty is reading the virtual
> > console. I'm not sure the release team would accept this as a stable
> > update, what do people think?
>
> I think this looks like quite a crud hack.
I agree :)
Samuel
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