GNU bug report logs - #30467
GuixSD fails to display login prompt on headless server

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Package: guix;

Reported by: George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 30467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 30467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Subject: Re: bug#30467: GuixSD fails to display login prompt on headless server
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:24:22 -0500

On 02/15/2018 at 21:29 George myglc writes:

> Hi Danny & Leo,
>
> Thanks for the quick response!
>
> On 02/15/2018 at 15:54 Danny Milosavljevic writes:
[...]
>> Also, you have
>>
>>  (kernel-arguments '("console=ttyS1,115200"))
>>
>> AND
>>
>> (agetty-service (agetty-configuration (tty "ttyS1")
>> 							 (baud-rate "115200")))
>> Starting today, the second one will be automatically configured by
>> %base-services.

> I did git-pull & make to get guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.1879-06a9 and 'guix
> system reconfigure' >>> the console is still blank.  (my G36)
>
>> In the long run please remove your agetty-service, it should automatically appear
>> (it recovers the settings from the "console" kernel-argument).
>
> Then I removed agetty-service, reconfigured and rebooted >>> the console
> is still blank. (my G37, sys.scm attached)

BTW, IPMI serial over lan (SOL) which most recently worked
here on ...
: a48b877e6 gnu: appstream-glib: Propagate some inputs.
: guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.1505-a48b8

... is also now broken, with or without ...

>> (agetty-service (agetty-configuration (tty "ttyS1")
>> 							 (baud-rate "115200")))
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