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

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Thu Oct 18 21:05:12 EDT 2012


On 10/08/2012 05:08 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> 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?
>
anybody? getty.service name should be reverted to autologin?

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