[arch-general] Login manager does not exit properly

Siddhartha sh.siddhartha at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 09:22:13 UTC 2015


On 16 April 2015 at 12:58, Chi Hsuan Yen <yan12125 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Out of my personal experience, use can try the following command to
> activate the login prompt: (from another tty or ssh, etc.)
>
> sudo systemctl restart getty at tty1.service
>
> Hope that helps :)

Yup, that works. Thanks a lot!

I wonder why it happens though, and how to go about debugging this.
Probably a bug in how the login managers interact with xorg? For
example if I set the default tty to tty7, even then it takes over tty1
and leads to a black screen.

Regards,
Siddhartha


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