I may confirm the same behaviour. I run debian sid with Cinnamon and lightdm, all ttys except tty1 disappeared after updating systemd, a few days ago, and version 260~rc2-1 did not fixed the issue.
Regards G. On Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:40:04 +0000 Roland Clobus <[email protected]> wrote:
Package: systemd Version: 260~rc2-1 Followup-For: Bug #1129276 X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Dear Maintainer, Unfortunately, the extra tty terminals are still not started automatically. See the live images based on sid (running on openQA): https://openqa.debian.net/tests/503933 https://openqa.debian.net/tests/503597 After a fresh boot (using a GNOME desktop): ``` user@debian:~$ systemctl | grep tty sys-devices-platform-serial8250-serial8250:0-serial8250:0.1-tty-ttyS1.device loaded active plugged /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/serial8250:0/serial8250:0.1/tty/ttyS1 sys-devices-platform-serial8250-serial8250:0-serial8250:0.2-tty-ttyS2.device loaded active plugged /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/serial8250:0/serial8250:0.2/tty/ttyS2 sys-devices-platform-serial8250-serial8250:0-serial8250:0.3-tty-ttyS3.device loaded active plugged /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/serial8250:0/serial8250:0.3/tty/ttyS3 sys-devices-pnp0-00:00-00:00:0-00:00:0.0-tty-ttyS0.device loaded active plugged /sys/devices/pnp0/00:00/00:00:0/00:00:0.0/tty/ttyS0 system-getty.slice loaded active active Slice /system/getty getty.target loaded active active Login Prompts ``` In the journal: ``` Mar 06 10:35:03 debian systemd-logind[1281]: Failed to start [email protected]: Unit [email protected] not found. Mar 06 10:35:09 debian sudo[3813]: user : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/user ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl start [email protected] ``` After `sudo systemctl start [email protected]` I was able to switch to tty3. Here is a direct link to the live ISO image: https://openqa.debian.net/admin/assets?search=gnome_sid_20260305T081219Z.iso With kind regards, Roland Clobus -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers sid APT policy: (500, 'sid'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.18.15+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages systemd depends on: ii libc6 2.42-13 ii libssl3t64 3.5.5-1 ii libsystemd-shared 260~rc2-1 ii libsystemd0 260~rc2-1 ii mount 2.41.3-4 Versions of packages systemd recommends: ii dbus [default-dbus-system-bus] 1.16.2-4
