Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?
On 2019-06-10, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
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>> Maybe
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>> sudo systemctl stop serial-getty@ttyS0.service
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>> if you haven't already tried it.
>
> No, after a reboot, I don't need to.
>
> minicom is working, sorta. Theres enough diffs in the protocol to
> call "working" by a rather fuzzy definition. But at least /dev/ttyS0 is
> now available for MY use. That was the squawk. I still have not found
> where the previous boot, to the same kernel/etc might have decided to
> grab /dev/ttyS0 for its own use. The previous boot did send 7 or 8 bytes
> of data that was just random line noise to the legacy machine on the
> receiving end that cable. Other than that, I'm still clueless.
Well, Michael Stone's guess was a good one (though, apparently, wrong).
Of course, you don't show any logs so it's anybody's guess.
Here's another: modemmanager probing ttyS0 trying to identify a modem.
Probably not, though. Anyway, it's working, which is enough for some of
us in this crazy old world.
> If I were to file a bug, it would be against java's current (stretch)
> jre. It has no backward compatibility with the wheezy version and has
> broken another utility we use so badly that the majority of it has now
> been re-written in pypy. So we at least have the function, if not
> the "purty" we had with the wheezy version of the jre. The purty will be
> improved I am sure. The pypy effort is quite young yet.
>
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>> > Thanks all;
>> >
>> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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