Hi Ludo, >I hadn’t noticed this is now part of ‘%base-services’. It would be nice if it were enabled on ARM only. Thoughts?
Why? It's not ARM-specific and there are people using headless x86 servers posting on the mailing list :) It's only enabled when you specify a serial port as console on the Linux command line - that's not going to happen accidentially. And once Linux uses the console for its messages it's nice to also have a login process running in the end - otherwise it's kinda annoying having only a read-only line when you sit right in front of the machine. On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:54:44 +0100 [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Commenting out (display "\x1b%G" (fdes->outport fd)) in (gnu services > base) appear to solve the problem. It seems that it used to affect just > the terminal behind FD and now somehow broadcasts to all existing > terminals? It was a bad idea to do the "\x1b%G" in the first place. There's a Linux kernel command-line parameter "vt.default_utf8" which is set to true anyway. In that case the iflag IUTF8 is set automatically by Linux drivers/tty/vt/vt.c and the driver also does the same as "\x1b%G" does in that case. So what do these things in (gnu services base) accomplish? Sounds like they change nothing. Maybe that was only done in later Linux kernels? I checked 3.4.103, it did that already.
