On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:14:18AM -0400, Dwight Engen wrote:
When a console is configured, /dev/console and /dev/tty1 are created as symlinks to the same underlying pts. This causes problems since a separate getty will be spawned for /dev/console and /dev/tty1, but they are each controlling the same device.
That is simply a bug in the OS setup IMHO. FYI systemd specified that the 'container_ttys' env variable should be set to indicate which devices a gettty should be spawned on and libvirt now sets that. We intentionally exclude tty1 from the container_ttys env var so we don't get the double-getty with any systemd enabled OS. IMHO even non-systemd OS could read that env var to decide where to spawn getttys See also this doc: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ContainerInterface/
This patch makes it so that /dev/console is the sole symlink to the first console, /dev/tty1 to the second, /dev/tty2 to the third and so on.
This is a backwards-incompatible change that is likely to break existing deployments I'm afraid, so we can't do that IMHO. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|