[arch-general] systemd virtual terminals
Hi, Just when I thought I'd solved the systemd issues, it seems broken again, coming back from a power outage. As near as I can tell--and please understand I've never seen behavior quite like this before, so conjecture might be the better term--my virtual terminals aren't coming up at least in a recognizable form. The behavior is weird. systemctl says that lxdm is running on vt07. But I can't access vt07 using the usual <CTRL><ALT>F7 sequence. Also when I log in, the password is visible. I've never ever seen the latter behavior before. Delete key behavior seems erratic and I'm feeling totally disoriented. Fortunately, the network does come up, so I'm able to ssh in from a still-sane system (it's a laptop and it apparently managed to stay up throughout the power outage). I did this, not that it helps much: graton# systemctl --failed UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB JOB DESCRIPTION fancontrol.service loaded failed failed Fan control daemon i2prouter.service loaded failed failed I2P router postgresql.service loaded failed failed PostgreSQL database server rc-local.service loaded failed failed /etc/rc.local Compatibility systemd-modules-load.service loaded failed failed Load Kernel Modules systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service loaded failed failed Cleanup of Temporary Directories systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service loaded failed failed Recreate Volatile Files and Directories LOAD = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded. ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB. SUB = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type. JOB = Pending job for the unit. 7 units listed. Pass --all to see inactive units, too. graton# I've tried to disable fancontrol; from what I can see, it will not run on this system, so I don't know why it's still trying to run. i2prouter is just broken on this system and has been for a while. postgresql has also been failing since I converted to systemd, but is not now important. And I thought I'd sorted out the tmp files, but: graton# journalctl | grep tmpfile Aug 14 23:21:36 graton systemd-tmpfiles[421]: [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/legacy.co.... Aug 14 23:21:36 graton systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: main pro...=1 Aug 14 23:21:36 graton systemd[1]: Unit systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service ente...e. Aug 14 23:35:00 graton systemd-tmpfiles[431]: [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/legacy.co.... Aug 14 23:35:00 graton systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: main pro...=1 Aug 14 23:35:00 graton systemd[1]: Unit systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service ente...e. Aug 14 23:49:49 graton systemd-tmpfiles[1356]: [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/legacy.c.... Aug 14 23:49:49 graton systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service: main pro...=1 Aug 14 23:49:49 graton systemd[1]: Unit systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service ente...e. graton#
From the fragmentary output, it looks to me like the problem is with legacy.conf but I'm not seeing why this should be problematic:
d /run/lock 0755 root root - d /run/lock/subsys 0755 root root - d /run/lock/lockdev 0775 root lock - /run and /run/lock both exist I've tried rebooting; it didn't help. Now what? Thanks! -- David Benfell benfell@parts-unknown.org -- David Benfell benfell@parts-unknown.org Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:03 AM, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote:
Also when I log in, the password is visible.
The first place I would check for this would be your console font/keymap config in /etc/vconsole.conf: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Console_and_keymap =-Jameson
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:03 AM, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote:
Also when I log in, the password is visible.
The first place I would check for this would be your console font/keymap config in /etc/vconsole.conf: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Console_and_keymap
=-Jameson
I saw this: graton% sudo cat /etc/vconsole.conf KEYMAP=us FONT=lat9w-16 FONT_MAP=8859-1_to_uni graton% No change. Thanks! - -- David Benfell benfell@parts-unknown.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQK+sKAAoJELT202JKF+xplLgQAKBxQW2M9qbWfpMQtHpvPf5D DgnCAhR4QqCLl3JxN6DQ3kki1lnTCfFVZRrc78bqusw6+hv5SxO0NYhhRvm1NWi6 cRzlLo1PMB5FV/0lRG1kNhPIBCsLWwa+GTIlu13e4oDkA0YmdLAQYuLi9+4z/UE9 Coej53f0UBsOBiO+QWV9jImrQMWVxM1AFaPWVy3uuC4tGEPI1F3pa0XqglwN2JRT IsdT16Hm4YLSyNcOswwx33T34fbrLVkcBD7JKyqYrV/7Kg6GBzlpMSaaT6eK9JyI BJIMJKLr89Y0bTr2PC2vN1PhXnneEr5536Da7icsiqrpTE4KyttXau/OYpE5LJLf 9pIAT5RWeTfO8Pv9TgaYDw/Ef5oU7ZF7fA3xpptgzuujBOk+MV1v6ZKa3MfDYNth lVrEfR+nbCHDzYczyPExSmodYuFOssqlNsbTHtbKPduSxsnU0o8TDLHDCbgNw4lu AIYiqo40aj/r73OCEbKoTQvv3Iydqq+VJhyyfvzcvWqFj5xBPtLbGDMyR5h/AGyg Yp1RZtexB6vnVatDmMgf4bJtNwOHzGMsAvI0uOb/ez9BDg+ODQE74e6C2yplbS26 8r2owQ1rMflNLupH3pgnmoJlrsht/S2RNEKZqr1gilkan1RBA/wJYMoK1Iz4LG80 DswDIwVzATu9yQdre7gj =xLNB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/15/2012 11:31 AM, David Benfell wrote:
On 08/15/2012 10:55 AM, Jameson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:03 AM, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote:
Also when I log in, the password is visible.
The first place I would check for this would be your console font/keymap config in /etc/vconsole.conf: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Console_and_keymap
=-Jameson
I saw this:
graton% sudo cat /etc/vconsole.conf KEYMAP=us FONT=lat9w-16 FONT_MAP=8859-1_to_uni graton%
No change.
Thanks!
Oh, and by the way (as in perhaps this is more relevant than I realize), the system still comes up under traditional init, so I'm using that for the moment, though I had to switch to Cinnamon for the graphical environment (neither XFCE nor Gnome would start; I didn't try Cinnamon 2 or whatever the other Cinnamon is). - -- David Benfell benfell@parts-unknown.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQK+xHAAoJELT202JKF+xpgg0P/3HWYLeZRj+7eldaZ7hFmRHr bTBYBND9w775x8L05trsd3pwQ78tg+MPeQ0sa/NYvkVcIBNlzcR8hqqwjm3hYsuy VmNst7+0BEqjXrO+7GI06njAsc4e2VkyfdroDJUUCcPgOhubJpbqPWbULwD2UX4K /M1SO0JI5iZ+UXUdliKrFGIwOnfsbEXOwyJBUjfGeZ/Ld8WTVeQaURMJY3GAhAqO OQ7H8JHIRNilZoIl7PISG38qRmjyjf2XAz1557iEEde7mwq04EgPF9lwMbEnueb+ qrKpReNTljsNSpjhypLWYRe3MEALj/flItoo+fClTH8QJKRmaYyAYejwtZfCikOy MYFjPEgRB/YxszaHHsAgGcP3B6vd7rBULBUUkvQym2R2yCZNr6BZgpW5/QYWH2kU tSXjFlFowGs/YYEJD5ORDRRbp9MVXboIudkV2CGY5mTvLUC8VvbKYo6oQUq6t0yt SbAqNJuYKu1Cwgp0s3MAoyTm5MWPxI5bmaJiru90SjSabFIESKzSRS+O7yIDDSvO hlU53Wd4pC5Df66PFbEnudWbz16CaIH9GbCi93COyyDUfVIzqLwEsv3hK1OYn4Qs faLhF77RZZYJP4vBAP228P18b6JstwoZJBA+S3YhzvvcwKkm/0QERa7qoUGRDYza 5jUumtOyQAvBD47XXNHo =VrXx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
If i had to guess, i would say, it sounds like something(some files) got corrupted due to the power outage. Don't know how you would go about fixing that. Maybe reinstall linux linux-utils systemd systemd-tools. On 15 August 2012 21:36, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote:
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On 08/15/2012 11:31 AM, David Benfell wrote:
On 08/15/2012 10:55 AM, Jameson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:03 AM, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote:
Also when I log in, the password is visible.
The first place I would check for this would be your console font/keymap config in /etc/vconsole.conf: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Console_and_keymap
=-Jameson
I saw this:
graton% sudo cat /etc/vconsole.conf KEYMAP=us FONT=lat9w-16 FONT_MAP=8859-1_to_uni graton%
No change.
Thanks!
Oh, and by the way (as in perhaps this is more relevant than I realize), the system still comes up under traditional init, so I'm using that for the moment, though I had to switch to Cinnamon for the graphical environment (neither XFCE nor Gnome would start; I didn't try Cinnamon 2 or whatever the other Cinnamon is).
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/15/2012 11:44 AM, Spyros Papageorgiou wrote:
If i had to guess, i would say, it sounds like something(some files) got corrupted due to the power outage. Don't know how you would go about fixing that. Maybe reinstall linux linux-utils systemd systemd-tools.
I think you meant util-linux, and fortunately pacman makes this ridiculously painless to do. I tried reinstalling these packages, but nothing has changed. Nonetheless, I think you may well be right about the power outage being the cause: my laptop, which I was afraid to reboot because it was my only functioning linux graphical environment, seems to have been unaffected (it, of course, has its own battery backup). I may be wrong here if there is a relevant difference between the 64-bit and 32-bit packages (the laptop is 32-bit).
On 15 August 2012 21:36, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote:
On 08/15/2012 11:31 AM, David Benfell wrote:
On 08/15/2012 10:55 AM, Jameson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:03 AM, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote:
Also when I log in, the password is visible.
The first place I would check for this would be your console font/keymap config in /etc/vconsole.conf: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Console_and_keymap
=-Jameson
I saw this:
graton% sudo cat /etc/vconsole.conf KEYMAP=us FONT=lat9w-16 FONT_MAP=8859-1_to_uni graton%
No change.
Thanks!
Oh, and by the way (as in perhaps this is more relevant than I realize), the system still comes up under traditional init, so I'm using that for the moment, though I had to switch to Cinnamon for the graphical environment (neither XFCE nor Gnome would start; I didn't try Cinnamon 2 or whatever the other Cinnamon is).
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