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

nit: the correct capitalization of systemd is “systemd” (i.e. all lowercase) :)

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@orangeseeds.org> wrote:

Control: tag -1 +patch

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="" href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html">upstream
+ documentation on how to configure serial console</ulink> and the
+ <ulink url="" href="https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Virtual_and_serial_console_changes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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.

Best regards,
Michael