Bug#754274: live-config-sysvinit: inittab rewrite fails for ttyS0
Package: live-config-sysvinit
Version: 3.0.23-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
I tried to make a debian-live image with a serial console. The default inittab has the serial getty commented out. Simply uncommenting this line (in includes.chroot) however did not result in a working serial terminal. The problem seems to be that `inittab` is rewritten by a script from this package. The concerning sed-command does not match `ttyS0`, and hence does not correctly rewrite the line. Patch below
--- a/lib/live/config/0170-sysvinit 2013-04-25 19:38:35.000000000 +0200
+++ b/lib/live/config/0170-sysvinit 2014-07-09 11:35:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
sed -i -e 's|^ *RAMTMP=.*|RAMTMP=no|' /etc/default/rcS
# Configure autologin
- sed -i -e "s|^\([^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*\):.*getty.*\<\(tty[0-9]*\).*$|\1:/bin/login -f ${LIVE_USERNAME} </dev/\2 >/dev/\2 2>\&1|" /etc/inittab
+ sed -i -e "s|^\([^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*\):.*getty.*\<\(ttyS\?[0-9]*\).*$|\1:/bin/login -f ${LIVE_USERNAME} </dev/\2 >/dev/\2 2>\&1|" /etc/inittab
init q
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages live-config-sysvinit depends on:
ii sysvinit 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1
live-config-sysvinit recommends no packages.
live-config-sysvinit suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Reply to: