Re: tty2,tty3,... missing after fresh install

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:

> On Sat 02 May 2015 at 12:28:01 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>> > On Sat 02 May 2015 at 06:47:33 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> >
>> >> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > On Fri 01 May 2015 at 20:38:32 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> dbus'.  Before I put `solved' to the thread, what do you think was the
>> >> >> cause?  I'm curious now.
>> >> >
>> >> > If you are curious enough you could remove dbus and reboot. journalctl
>> >> > should have a line "Starting getty on tty2-tty6 if dbus and logind are
>> >> > not available". Prior to that there are a bunch of services started.
>> >> > What you experienced seems like a bug. Maybe there is some clue in the
>> >> > journal.
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> I did: `apt-get remove dbus', rebooted and the problem was there again
>> >> with tty2,...,tty6.  Then I did `journalctl | grep getty' but that output
>> >> nothing at all.  In journalctl output there are many `Failed to start
>> >> Login Service' messages.
>> >
>> > What do you get for
>> >
>> >    ls -l /lib/systemd/system/getty* ?
>> 
>> Here's the output:
>> 
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1536 Dec  5 10:21 /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  460 Dec  5 10:21 /lib/systemd/system/getty.target
>
> /lib/systemd/system/getty-static.service is missing. What ISO did you
> use to install Jessie? Dec 5 indicates it was jessie-DI-rc1, which is
> now obsolete.

Yes, it is, precisely debian-jessie-DI-rc1-i386-netinst.iso.  Is there now some
other iso?  Maybe at the time of that older iso the bug you talked about was
not fixed yet?

Rodolfo