On 2015-05-01 17:42 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> After freshly installing Debian Jessie on my old laptop, with no graphical
>> environment yet, at prompt, only tty1 is present: if I press Alt-F2, Alt-F3
>> and so on, there's no prompt at all, no tty2, tty3, etc. Is that normal?
Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes:
> No, only a short delay before the login prompt appears is to be expected
> since systemd starts gettys by demand. But that should hardly be
> noticeable.
>
> After you switched to tty2 and back to tty1, what does
> "systemctl status getty@tty2.service" print?
Here's the output:
● getty@tty2.service - Getty on tty2
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service; enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:agetty(8)
man:systemd-getty-generator(8)
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html
Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
> No, it is not normal. As Sven Joachim says, activation of a tty is on
> demand and almost instantaneous. There were bugs relating to the
> behaviour you describe but they have been attended to. Please see the
> systemd bug record.
>
> What do you get for
>
> dpkg -l dbus
Here's the output:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un dbus <none> <none> (no description available)
Francisco M Neto <fmn...@gmail.com> writes:
> Also, since you're using a laptop, have you tried Alt+Fn+F2?
It produces no effect.
Thanks all for your help. The problem disappeared once I did `apt-get install
dbus'. Before I put `solved' to the thread, what do you think was the cause?
I'm curious now.
Cheers,
Rodolfo
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