[arch-general] [SOLVED] Polluted login prompt

[Giorgio Lando]

On Sun 13/01/13, 23:57, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Sudaraka Wijesinghe
> <sudaraka.wijesinghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > With reference to an issue I raised on this ML earlier:
> > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-November/032201.html
> >
> > I was able to solve my issue by setting the service type (or unit type)
> > of the systemd units that generate output after the login prompt to "idle".
> 
> I think that's what the wiki suggests:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Automatic_login_to_virtual_console

No. The wiki suggests to set Type=idle for the getty service, and this should
avoid the pollution of the prompt, but fails to do so. By contrast, Sudara has been forced
to set Type=idle for any other services that was polluting the getty prompt.
Nonetheless it is a useful workaround until someone upstream happens to care
about the bug.