[arch-releng] why this was removed from archiso hook?

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Mon Oct 8 04:08:02 EDT 2012


On 10/07/2012 05:30 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am 07.10.2012 00:52, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
>>> https://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/commit/?id=d355c2b83527d3f0c08c6e800b975a613a169c9d
>> OMG, this is shit. This needs to be (mostly) reverted.
>>
>> This replaces the normal getty at .service by our autologin at .service, which
>> causes autologin on all terminals. This is definitely not intended.
>>
>> We don't want to replace getty at .service with autologin, we only want to
>> start autologin on tty1.
> This is exactly what it is doing here. How did you manage to have it
> logged in on all terminals? I have tested the iso several times on vm
> and different real hardware and never had this issue.
>
>>> * the multi-user.target is the default
>>>
>>> is not the default! graphical.target is the default, this causes an
>>> error on startup because is trying to start display-manager.service, so
>>> fallback to multi-user.target
>> Correct.
> Sorry, I forgot about the display-manager issue (afaik this was
> introduced in later versions of systemd). But you guys are a little
> overreacting here. I don't see how this would justify a new iso release.
> All that happens is that systemd prints a warning in its journal. There
> is no error on startup; it even prints a green OK here.
>
> It is correct to enable the multi-user.target again.
>
> But to be clear here, there is no visible effect as this target was
> activated by the graphical target anyway.
>
>> Pierre, why are you doing last minute changes to things you clearly do
>> not understand properly?
> How about you watch your tone? Nobody is going to work on this project
> if we insult each other when minor errors are made.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Pierre
>
sorry if I sound in a bad tone, this was not my intention.


so, what to do revert or not revert?

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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