'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 06/03/12 12:38 did gyre and gimble: > * 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.
They why are you booting to a graphical target? Check your /etc/systemd/system/default.target and if it's a symlink to runlevel5.target or graphical.target then this is your problem. You should instead symlink it to multi-user.target or runlevel3.target. > 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. Sorry not sure what you mean? > Cannot prefdm/X11/whatever be started on 7nd console like during the > years 90th ? :) Sure, just copy prefdm.service to /etc/systemd/system and edit it to not have a "Conflicts: [email protected]" and then configure whatever dm you have to start on vt7 (usually a matter of configuring which args are passed to the X11 it starts. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
