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| author | ficus <ficus@robocracy.org> | 2012-11-16 22:05:53 +0100 |
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| committer | ficus <ficus@robocracy.org> | 2012-11-16 22:05:53 +0100 |
| commit | 5db8950ab3502b73df459b124887fef0338fb83b (patch) | |
| tree | b84cbf1c86e5ade90a84294e4b4135e1fd310f59 /doc | |
| parent | eddf79ba816ed061c6e2e70558f9a62c9191467c (diff) | |
| download | torouter-live-5db8950ab3502b73df459b124887fef0338fb83b.tar.gz torouter-live-5db8950ab3502b73df459b124887fef0338fb83b.zip | |
fix and doc serial ttyS0 boot login problem
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diff --git a/doc/serial-console.txt b/doc/serial-console.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5ba6ea --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/serial-console.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ + +Recent versions of live-config have a bug relating to automatic serial console +logins (eg, on /dev/ttyS0). These affect headless systems like torouter. + +Previously, a "live-getty" boot flag was sufficient to enable such logins. At +some point this broke, and now even custom versions of /etc/inittab which +enable regular logins get mangled by the live-config script '0170-sysvinit'. + +http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602788 + +http://live.debian.net/gitweb/?p=live-config.git;a=blob;f=docs/README;h=8059e3d8d2be6616d30f9e695472d4992387f7d2;hb=HEAD + +As a work-around, the bundled /etc/inittab and script 9999-serial_console +combined de-mangle the 0170-sysvinit changes and enable an automatic user login +on /dev/ttySO after system boot. + +See also: + +config/includes.chroot/etc/inittab +config/includes.chroot/lib/live/config/9999-serial_console |