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Bug 506030 - sys-apps/sysvinit - Spawn agetty on 'console' to support login via Xen' console
Summary: sys-apps/sysvinit - Spawn agetty on 'console' to support login via Xen' console
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2014-03-28 07:23 UTC by f0o
Modified: 2016-04-28 00:59 UTC (History)
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Description f0o 2014-03-28 07:23:54 UTC 
Hi,

The current '/etc/inittab' does not spawn an 'agetty'/loginshell on 'console' so login via Xen' console is not possible by default.

Adding this to the '/etc/inittab' solves it without distinctive drawbacks on non-xenU installs:
x1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 console linux

Cheers,
f0o



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot Stock-Gentoo (iso for example) from Xen Dom0 as PV-Guest.
2.Let it boot until 'local'-init finishes.
3.No login-shell is showed now nor any input is taken anymore.
Comment 1 Ian Delaney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-04-04 01:17:01 UTC 
quite correct
Comment 2 William Hubbs gentoo-dev 2016-02-01 15:24:04 UTC 
This is fixed in 2.88-r8.
Thanks for the report.
Comment 3 PaX Team 2016-02-03 12:30:17 UTC 
this seems to have broken existing setups, see bug #573668.
Comment 4 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev 2016-04-28 00:14:21 UTC 
(In reply to PaX Team from comment #3)
> this seems to have broken existing setups, see bug #573668.

i'm just coming to this bug to see if sysvinit is ready for stabilization.  it looks like this is fixed, can we close this bug?
Comment 5 PaX Team 2016-04-28 00:54:52 UTC 
(In reply to Anthony Basile from comment #4)
> i'm just coming to this bug to see if sysvinit is ready for stabilization. 
> it looks like this is fixed, can we close this bug?
i guess so, at least it works for me (tm) ;).