On Fri 01 May 2015 at 20:38:32 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > 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
Not good. No service running; no service will be given. > 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) That is what one would expect with a minimal install. > 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. dbus cures the problem but it is one which doesn't occur for me with a straightforward minimal install. Pass on the cause. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/01052015220618.985ec835c...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
