Assaf Gordon <assafgor...@gmail.com> skribis: > On 10/05/2014 08:29 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>>> I haven’t tried agetty, but it seems to have a hard-coded default login >>>> program of “/bin/login”, which doesn’t exist here. Could you try >>>> invoking it with -l $(guix build shadow)/bin/login ? >>>> >>>> Alternately you could try adding a mingetty service to the >>>> configuration: >>>> >>>> (operating-system >>>> ... >>>> (services (cons (mingetty-service "ttyS0") >>>> %base-services))) >>>> >>> >>> I still can't get serial console to work, perhaps needs more fidgeting. >> >> Did you try agetty with -l as suggested above? >> > > Yes. Same as before - it exists after a timeout of few seconds. > >>> Trying "mingetty ttyS0" from the command line fails with: >>> ttyS0: no controlling tty: Operation not permitted >> >> Is mingetty running as root here? If it is, could you strace it to see >> exactly what returns EPERM? >> > > Yes. Running as root. > > I don't have "strace" installed - how do I install it ? (I'm very new to > guix).
Run ‘guix package -i strace’. Preferably register hydra.gnu.org.pub to enable “substitutes” before doing that, so the system doesn’t end up building the world (info "(guix) Substitutes"). HTH, Ludo’.
