------- Comment From [email protected] 2015-05-05 04:55 EDT------- Apparently this is still a problem for 14.04 on PowerKVM. I just looked at a bug that was dup of this (LTC bug 124322). It was a 14.04.2 with 3.13.0-51 kernel, but I think this affects all 14.04 LTS. Adding the "hvc0.conf" as described above fixed it.
This doesn't seem to be a problem for 15.04. GA level 15.04 on the same PowerKVM guest worked fine. There are some differences between 14.04 and 15.04; the latter uses systemd to manage the gettys 14.04 and uses initscripts (upstart)? But the requirement is the same: we must have a getty running on hvc0. This also doesn't seem to be a problem for 14.04 in the PowerVM environment, and I'm not sure why. Both appear to use hvc0 for the text console, but on PowerVM /etc/init/hvc0.conf is getting created and on PowerKVM it is not. (It's also not a problem for 14.04 on x86 KVM, which uses a device other than /dev/hvc0...) I noticed that most of the other, similar files are owned by upstart: $ dpkg-query -L upstart | egrep "tty|console" /etc/init/console.conf /etc/init/tty1.conf /etc/init/tty2.conf /etc/init/tty3.conf /etc/init/tty4.conf /etc/init/tty5.conf /etc/init/tty6.conf But I could not find the owner of hvc0.conf, and by the timestamp is clear it is created at intall time: $ dpkg-query -S /etc/init/hvc0.conf dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/init/hvc0.conf $ ll /etc/init/hvc0.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 353 May 5 00:01 /etc/init/hvc0.conf Can we get someone from Canonical to explain how this file is created, and why we might be getting it in PowerVM but not PowerKVM? I noticed in both PowerVM and PowerKVM, /proc/consoles lists hvc0... $ cat /proc/consoles hvc0 -W- (EC ) 229:0 $ cat /proc/devices | grep 229 229 hvc So maybe this can be used as an indicator of when hvc0.conf should be created? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391919 Title: ISST-KVM:Ubuntu14.04: guest console not accessible but ssh and ping works fine To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/1391919/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
