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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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live-config autologin broken?

TTY autologin has stopped working in the excalibur live isos I'm making. This is normally done by the live-config script, 0160-sysvinit, which looks for a package named 'sysvinit' and if it's present, it modifies /etc/inittab to automatically log in the primary use on tty1. There are a couple of issues.

1. 'sysvinit' is a dummy transitional package. It's not a dependency of sysvinit-core, so it's possible to be using sysvinit as your init system without this dummy package installed. If it's not installed, then the live-config script doesn't setup autologin and the user is presented with a tty login prompt.

2. Now in excalibur, if the dummy package is installed, the system fails to complete its bootup. I can ssh in and see that /etc/inittab has been modified, but the ttys don't get created. I'm not sure where to look for the actual failure. The live-config script in excalibur is the same as the one in daedalus, where this problem does not occur.

I did a search on the debian-live mailing list and didn't find anything useful. What am I missing?

fsmithred

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Re: live-config autologin broken?

More info -

I installed runit and made another iso. Autologin is configured by editing the run files in /etc/sv/getty-tty[1-6]. Autologin fails in this case, and the run files were not edited. In fact, it looks like live-config did not run at all - /var/log/live/config.log is empty.

This one boots to no login prompt, but pressing ENTER shows the login prompt and it works.

CORRECTION: The login prompt is there in runit, but I didn't see it because the console got spammed with system messages.