On 11/18/2014 03:50 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > With > current sysvinit the serial console is also used as main but > sysvinit-core does not produce any messages on tty0 whatsoever and so > does not mislead the user into thinking that useful boot progress > feedback can be obtained on that terminal.
This is because bootlogd only supports a single output at a time, and therefore only outputs on the *last* occurrence of the console= boot parameter. The patch that I pointed to resolves this by adding support for outputting to multiple consoles. If you want it for Wheezy, I have it here (as I use it for my unofficial OpenStack backport repo, it's in that repository): http://archive.gplhost.com/debian/pool/juno-backports/main/s/sysvinit/ On 11/18/2014 03:50 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > systemd on the other hand > prints selected messages on both terminals but most messages go only > to the main serial terminal. Yet another "WTF", and probably if you ask upstream, they'll find a good reason for that, and will tag +wontfix if you submit a bug... I'd be curious to know what's the (twisted) reasoning behind. Maybe because upstream considers that ttyS0 is for debugging, which IMO is wrong (it should be considered as a normal console, just like tty0, and debug messages should also be printed to tty0 anyway). BTW, it's good to know that we have a way to debug things with systemd, thanks for the tip! :) On 11/18/2014 03:50 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > For completeness I tried upstart and it produces two error messages on > both terminals and 6 progress messages on serial terminal never giving > a login prompt on either. This is unexpected as it used to work on > wheezy. I would strongly suggest that you file bugs against both systemd and upstart then! (and *not* using the "general" pseudo-package...) Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/546a8a4e.8010...@debian.org