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



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On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 09:19:07AM -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 08:32:54AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Michael Biebl, le Sun 07 Jun 2015 01:41:59 +0200, a écrit :
> > > /etc/inittab is a sysvinit specific config file, which systemd won't
> > > read. This is not going to change.
> > > 
> > > If you have custom changes to /etc/inittab, those need to be converted
> > > into systemd equivalents manually, if necessary.
> > 
> > As I said in a previous mail, that's not what I call a seamless upgrade.
> > It be at least documented in the release notes or on
> > https://wiki.debian.org/systemd
> 
> I had a similar problem and documented this in the systemd manpage here:
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Virtual_and_serial_console_changes
> 
> I agree this could be part of the release notes - do you have any
> suggestion as where the note should be?
> 
> If you looked for it in the release notes, where did you look?

Here's a patch that may fix this for you... it would probably need to be
backported to Jessie to be really relevant at this point, but
whatever...


Index: en/issues.dbk
===================================================================
--- en/issues.dbk	(révision 11433)
+++ en/issues.dbk	(copie de travail)
@@ -306,6 +306,18 @@
     basis.
   </para>
 
+  <section id="systemd-inittab-changes">
+    <title>SystemD does not configure consoles from
+    /etc/inittab</title>
+    <para>Since the switch to SystemD in Jessie, the /etc/inittab
+      configuration file is ignored. See the <ulink
+      url="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html";>upstream
+      documentation on how to configure serial console</ulink> and the
+      <ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Virtual_and_serial_console_changes";>Debian
+      wiki</ulink> for more information.
+    </para>
+  </section>  
+
   <section id="openssh-protocol-and-cipher-support-changes">
     <title>Older ciphers and SSH1 protocol disabled in OpenSSH by default</title>
     <para>

A.

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