On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 12:52:52PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
reassign 966414 sddm
thanks

Apologies, copy'n'paste error with bug number

> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 12:38:11PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:05:34AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 10:37:40 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > > X is running on VT 7, so this is not the cause (and it does so for
> > > > many years already).
> > > ...
> > > > In http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html I read that X 
> > > > should 
> > > > start on VT1? Maybe systemd is no confused?
> > > 
> > > It depends what starts X on your system. Display managers are encouraged
> > > to behave as described in that article, but not all do.
> > > 
> > > GNOME's GDM (gdm3 in Debian) is an example of a display manager that
> > > does behave in that way. Recent versions of GDM use tty1 for GDM's own
> > > Wayland or X11 "greeter" (login screen), and ask systemd-logind for one
> > > additional VT per Wayland/X11 login session. By default, systemd-logind
> > > will start allocating VTs from tty2..tty5 if they have not already been
> > > used for a text-mode (getty) login prompt, skip tty6 (which it reserves
> > > for a text-mode login prompt), and continue from tty7. If you switch to
> > > tty2..tty5 before they have been used for a graphical login session,
> > > they will get a text-mode login prompt instead; if you visit all of
> > > tty2..tty5 before the first graphical login, then the first graphical
> > > login will end up on tty7. See logind.conf(5) for more details.
> > > 
> > > In practice this usually means that GNOME systems have the greeter on
> > > tty1, the first graphical login on tty2, and the second and subsequent
> > > graphical logins (if you use "fast user switching" to get multiple
> > > parallel graphical logins) on tty3..tty5.
> > > 
> > > Other display managers like lightdm, sddm or xdm might either be using
> > > tty1 (as encouraged by systemd) or tty7 (more traditional on Debian
> > > systems), and they might either reuse the greeter's X11 display for the
> > > user's login session (as xdm traditionally did) or allocate a separate
> > > VT for each login session (like GDM does).
> > > 
> > > GDM specifically conflicts with getty@tty1.service, so that it can take
> > > over tty1 when the system boots in graphical mode, while leaving a getty
> > > on tty1 when the system boots in text mode. Other display managers might
> > > do something similar, or not.
> > > 
> > > I don't think anyone is going to be able to solve this bug, or even say
> > > whether it *is* a bug, without more information about your system - in
> > > particular, what display manager you are using.
> > > 
> > > > see all boot messages [on tty1], just if I need them
> > > 
> > > During a normal boot, by default the screen is cleared before showing
> > > the login prompt, so the boot messages will not be visible anyway.
> > > 
> > > However, systemd's rescue.target (the equivalent of sysvinit single user
> > > mode, runlevel 1) and emergency.target (like runlevel 1, but more so)
> > > do not do this. By default, the grub bootloader generates options for
> > > "recovery mode", which is implemented by adding "single" to the kernel
> > > command line to select systemd rescue.target or sysvinit runlevel 1
> > > as applicable.
> > > 
> > >     smcv
> 
> 
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