Hello Aurélien, Am Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 12:18:03AM +0200 schrieb Aurélien COUDERC: > Le samedi 21 juin 2025, 18:41:59 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Helge > Kreutzmann a écrit : > > Hello Aurélien, > > Dear Helge, > > > did you have a chance to test this? This is really anyoing. > > > > I just discovered that it is also the other way round: > > run (as root) > > systemctl restart sddm > > → Console 7 is closed and programms running there are killed. > > Yes, I could reproduce this.
Thanks for checking. > It is due to SDDM declaring a [email protected] in its service > file. See [1] and [2]. Ok, the I just have to find out how to properly edit the file, /usr is not simply an edito away. > I seem to remember that in the distant past this would have been required > because display managers had to run on tty7 not to step over user sessions or > for managing some interaction with plymouth or something… > I’m not sure this still makes much sense today, and you will probably be fine > removing that Conflicts relation with tty7 from the unit. Feel free to give > it a try and report back. > > I’d say it’s a pretty niche use case since the default install has 6 ttys > enabled by default and I’m not sure many people are both using 7 or more ttys > and using sddm. No idea either. > And I don’t feel confident changing this in the Debian package so close to > the release. I’m not sure if there are any interactions with other components > we could break this way. But we can certainly do the change early in the > forky cycle. Great. Maybe a short mention in the release notes could be done? Greetings Helge -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann [email protected] Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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