Public bug reported:
When installing using a serial console,
/usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/90console correctly sets up a serial console in
/etc/inittab, but also *disables* all virtual consoles. Apparently there
is a genuine reason for that:
* Joshua Kwan
- Comment out tty* getty invocations in /target/etc/inittab when
you install over serial console, because it's likely that you'll
not have a real tty upon restart (thus preventing annoying spam
from init about getty respawning.)
However, this is not always wanted. Often, console access using the
/dev/tty[0-6] is also required, e.g. when physical maintenance people
need to work on a server. It would be nice if there was better
autodetection of this, or a way to manually select or preseed the
desired behaviour.
Perhaps check whether "console=tty0" is present in the kernel command
line arguments, in addition to ttyS0?
** Affects: finish-install (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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finish-install disables virtual consoles on serial console installs
https://launchpad.net/bugs/64837
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