Tonight's rawhide REALLY wants to boot into level 5

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Fri Mar 28 01:33:27 UTC 2008


Bill Crawford wrote:
> On 27/03/2008, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> 
>> /etc/inittab is obsolete in upstart
>>
>>  in /etc/sysconfig/init  set
>>
>>  GRAPHICAL=no
> 
> Aha. That would explain why I can't put "--noclear" on the mingetty
> line in inittab to be able to read the error messages that, it
> appears, upstart spews onto my screen *just before* starting the
> login: prompts. The ones which appear to have "_init" in them, but I
> can't read, because they disappear so fast.
> 
> Where would I edit the options for the terminal login process?
> 
find /etc -type f 2>/dev/null -exec grep -H mingetty {} \;


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John

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