On 06/03/12 12:46, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
2012/3/6 Olivier Thauvin<[email protected]>:
* Colin Guthrie ([email protected]) wrote:
'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 06/03/12 09:24 did gyre and gimble:
Hi there,
I just try to install a cauldron to setup a test IPv6 firewall/router.
To setup server I do a minimum install:
- /boot on its own partition
- /var /tmp and swap on lvm
- select no packages categories but yes install doc
- no post configuration, so no X11 (hey it's a server)
At boot the system started but stop to "starting display manager" (??)
and I were unable to reach any text terminal.
No text terminal at all? Not on tty2 or 3?
Indeed, alt + F2 show the login prompt. But before I pressed alt + F2 ps
was not showing any "*getty" program, a bit confusing, especially since
there is nothing on first console.
If you try and start dm (prefdm.service) then you will NOT get a tty1
getty (prefdm.service conflicts with [email protected]), but all other
tty's should be fine (handled by [email protected])
Maybe, but I never asked to have prefdm and in fact I don't want X
terminal.
All sys admin expect to have a tty on first console and just having
"starting dm service" whereas I know it cannot start is really
confusing.
Cannot prefdm/X11/whatever be started on 7nd console like during the
years 90th ? :)
Ah, back at that one again. We had a lengthy and lively debate about
this not so long ago where exactly this scenario came up. Don't
remember whether it was on this list or the -discuss list.
What is even more confusing currently is that switching to tty2, logging
in as root and running 'systemctl restart prefdm.service' restarts the
dm back on tty7 anyway :/
