There is a similar issue, especially systemd environment. The wheezy installer add serial console getty section in inittab, but jessie's systemd seems no care.
I need to execute "systemctl enable serial-getty@ttyS0.service" manually to enable serial console login. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org