Re: Bug#718416: general: tty1 is cleared at boot, obscuring a screenfull of important boot messages

["Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" <odyx@debian.org>]

Le mercredi, 31 juillet 2013 15.17:57, Holger Levsen a écrit :
> reassign 718416 sysvinit
> thanks
> 
> $ grep etc/inittab /var/lib/dpkg/info/*
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/sysvinit.postinst:if [ ! -f /etc/inittab ]
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/sysvinit.postinst:   cp -p
> /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab /etc/inittab

sysvinit didn't change in that regard for a long time. I think the bug 
belongs to util-linux which changed the getty implementation:

util-linux (2.17.2-4) unstable; urgency=low
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  * Deliver agetty as both agetty and getty, preferring agetty.
    Closes: #117596
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 -- LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:06:47 -0700

Cheers,
OdyX