Hi! Mathieu Othacehe <m.othac...@gmail.com> skribis:
>> In ‘guix system vm’ the process stopped after trying to use “wired” >> network. At that point I realized I couldn’t switch to other VCs using >> Alt-F2 & co. Is that something specific to kmscon? Anything we can do >> about it? > > It might be a bug because the last step is supposed to be "User > selection". Currently after this step, the program exits and is > restarted (as the installer is the shell of the root process). > > For me it is possible to switch tty with ctrl-alt-fx on real hardware > and with alt-f2, sendctrlkey ctrl-alt-fx on Qemu. However, besides tty2 > which I kept as documentation, other tty are also root kmscon terminals > spawning the installer. Oh indeed, it’s ctrl-alt instead of alt. Perhaps this should be written on the welcome page of the installer? >> I think it’d be nice to have the new installer UI on tty1 and yet be >> able to just switch to root terminals or the manual on the other VCs. > > You mean, switching from > > tty1: installer > tty2: documentation > tty3-6: installer > > to, > > tty1: installer > tty2: documentation > tty3-6: plain root terminals > > right? Right. > That would require to find a new solution to spawn the installer on > tty1. I tried the 'login-program' way but I don't like it because the > installer does not have access to PAM env variables. Any other idea? I was going to suggest the ‘login-program’ way. :-) What’s the story with PAM env variables? Thanks, Ludo’.
