Re: Problems with Step 4

From: Daniel GSJ <audobra_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 09:53:13 +0200

Hello,
Problem solved.
To be honest, I was not aware of CTRL + Alt + F5, and I was trying to get
the login
prompt through chvt 5... but it doesn't work.

Thank you!


2017-06-29 2:58 GMT+02:00 Guillermo <gdiazhartusch_at_gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> 2017-06-27 16:51 GMT-03:00 Daniel GSJ:
> >
> > Once stage 2 is reached, the computer hangs in the same way than when
> > executing *agetty* in an active console tty, and doesn't login neither.
> >
> > My o.s. is build with Linux-from-scratch, and is running SystemV, so it
> is
> > a pretty simple system.
> >
> > I've tried different possibilities like:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > exec setsid /sbin/agetty tty5 linux
> >
> > or
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > exec chpst -P /sbin/agetty tty5 linux
>
> 'chpst -P' from the runit package and setsid from the util-linux
> package do the same thing. And this works on my Gentoo machine (using
> a minimal setup with almost nothing else running, for testing
> purposes). Of course, I have to press CTRL + Alt + F5 to get a login
> prompt, otherwise I just see the kernel's and runit's messages. You do
> not provide enough context about your problem, e.g. you do not say
> where your /etc/runit/1 comes from (did you write it yourself? did you
> copy one from somewhere? official instructions from
> www.linuxfromscratch.org only mention sysvinit or systemd, so it is
> not from there), how you know the stage 2 is reached, what you see on
> the console when everything hangs, ...
>
> /root/scan/getty-tty1:
> total 8
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 28 20:11 down
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 48 Jun 28 20:03 run
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 28 20:07 supervise
>
> /root/scan/getty-tty5:
> total 8
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 48 Jun 28 20:03 run
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 28 20:09 supervise
>
> /root/scan/getty-tty1/run:
> #!/bin/sh
> exec chpst -P /sbin/agetty tty1 linux
>
> /root/scan/getty-tty5/run:
> #!/bin/sh
> exec chpst -P /sbin/agetty tty5 linux
>
> PID PPID PGRP COMMAND
> 1 0 1 runit
> 674 1 674 runsvdir -P /root/scan log: ....................
> 675 674 675 \_ runsv getty-tty1
> 676 674 676 \_ runsv getty-tty5
> 677 676 677 \_ /bin/login --
> 682 677 682 \_ -bash
> 685 682 685 \_ ps axf -o pid,ppid,pgrp,args
>
> And after doing 'sv up ./scan/getty-tty1' and CTRL + Alt + F1, I can
> log on tty1 too:
>
> PID PPID PGRP COMMAND
> 1 0 1 runit
> 674 1 674 runsvdir -P /root/scan log: ....................
> 675 674 675 \_ runsv getty-tty1
> 687 675 687 | \_ /bin/login --
> 693 687 693 | \_ -bash
> 694 693 694 | \_ ps axf -o pid,ppid,pgrp,args
> 676 674 676 \_ runsv getty-tty5
> 691 676 691 \_ /sbin/agetty tty5 linux
>
> G.
>
Received on Sat Jul 01 2017 - 07:53:13 UTC