Hello, On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:45:07PM +0200, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:29:43PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > I replaced one terminal of mine with: > > 9:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty9 > > > > and it at least fixes this bug.
I put in now on all VCs and see if anything breaks (maybe I missed
"the one" pattern on this test VC).
> yes, mingetty is:
> 1) for virtual consoles only (i.e. no serial lines
> support and thus no bitness-autodetection)
This should be no problem. In my /etc/inittab I find the following
comments:
# Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal)
#
#T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
#T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100
# Example how to put a getty on a modem line.
#
#T3:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 57600 ttyS3
I see no reason to switch new installs to mingetty and add one of the
current lines as another example, e.g.,
# Example how to use classical getty for serial lines etc.
#
#4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
> 2) more recent IIRC and more legacy-free IMHO
I guess the »legacy-free« stuff is the relevant issue.
> BTW, in RedHat mingetty was used for VCs by default. I
> was surprised that Debian uses getty when I switched to
> Debian several years ago...
Maybe Debian should then simply switch as well (for new installs)?
Unless a compelling technical issue arises, this should be no problem.
> > (Serial lines are a different issue, of course).
>
> Maybe this is the reason -- wish to have universal
> getty program capable of handling both VCs and serial
> lines?
Well, as stated above, examples are given. I never used a serial line,
but the (already present) example indicates, that a user has to edit
/etc/inittab anyhow to get the serial line working (but maybe I am
wrong here). If serial lines are indeed a concern (and maybe for some
archs they are) and the current setup works out of the box, then we
should hunt the bug in getty, of course (or get the installer to
write a proper /etc/inittab in this case).
I see another "problem": mingetty is only optional, so the installer
cannot gurantee it to be available. So it first would have to become
"required".
What do you think: Should we try to hunt down the problem in getty, or
do you think its more sensible to get mingetty the default (and hence
mingetty "required")?
> Tomasz, what getty do you use for virtual consoles in
> PLD (by default)?
I worked quite a while on PLD (Ra), and I never encountered a problem
with the console (both on alpha as well as on intel, but again, no
serial line), so if indeed mingetty is used, than it looks like a good
bet for Debian as well. (Sorry, I have no longer access to a PLD box
myself nor to "my" PLD hacker).
Greetings
Helge
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