Control: tags -1 + confirmed Hi Luca,
On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 03:45:18PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > debvm monkey patches [email protected] to inject '-a root' for > autologin. But this is fragile and breaks when the context changes, as > it has happened in systemd v259 where the ExecStart line changed a > bit. This causes debvm to break the unit by injecting an empty > ExecStart= without the override, so console login is broken. I'm sorry about that. I was not happy about this, but it was one of the few ways that worked across a lot of Debian releases. > Fortunately with util-linux 2.40 and systemd v247 we have much better > mechanism to configure getty, via credentials, so I've opened a MR to > do just that: > > https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/debvm/-/merge_requests/58 Thank you. The credential approach is quite an improvement even though we get to keep the fallback. > I would greatly appreciate an upload at your earliest convenience as > autopkgtest failure means src:systemd cannot migrate. I fear my earliest convenience is taking too long for your matters as I'd defer it to next week. However, I do agree that this is an RC bug in debvm and asked the release team to override the autopkgtest failure. Paul Gevers kindly enacted it and I hope that systemd will be able to migrate soon. Thanks for your understanding Helmut
