[Bug 631155] Re: Cannot login to tty1 after system starts

[James Hunt]

This sounds like a bug with slim - try logging in on tty2 and looking at
what file descriptors it has open:

ls -al /proc/$(pgrep slim)/fd/

If it has /dev/tty1 open, that's the problem. A better search would be
to run the following as root which will tell you the pid of the process
that has /dev/tty1 open

(cd /proc;for pid in  [0-9][0-9]*; do ls -al /proc/$pid/fd|grep
/dev/tty1; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "pid $pid has /dev/tty1 open"; fi;
done)

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Title:
  Cannot login to tty1 after system starts

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: upstart

  1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or
  System -> About Ubuntu.

  ~> lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
  Release:        10.04

  2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy
  packagename' or by checking in Synaptic.

  upstart:
    Installed: 0.6.5-7
    Candidate: 0.6.5-7
    Version table:
   *** 0.6.5-7 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       0.6.5-6 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

  3) What you expected to happen

  After system starts, I expect to have the following consoles
  available:

  CTRL-ALT-F1:  tty1 text login prompt
  CTRL-ALT-F2:  tty2 text login prompt
  CTRL-ALT-F3:  tty3 text login prompt
  CTRL-ALT-F4:  tty4 text login prompt
  CTRL-ALT-F5:  tty5 text login prompt
  CTRL-ALT-F6:  tty6 text login prompt
  CTRL-ALT-F7:  boot messages
  CTRL-ALT-F8:  graphical login manager

  4) What happened instead

  Consoles 2 through 8 work correctly, but instead of getting a log on
  prompt for tty1, I get a blank screen with a blinking cursor about
  halfway down on the left side.  The ps command does not show any getty
  process for tty1:

  ~> ps -ef | grep tty
  root       850     1  0 14:09 tty4     00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty4
  root       855     1  0 14:09 tty5     00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty5
  root       861     1  0 14:09 tty2     00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty2
  root       862     1  0 14:09 tty3     00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty3
  root       864     1  0 14:09 tty6     00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty6
  root      1614  1599  2 14:10 tty8     00:01:34 /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/slim.auth

  If I run "sudo start tty1", I get "tty1 start/running, process nnnn"
  and the ps command shows a getty process for tty1.  When I switch to
  the console, I get a login prompt, but it does not behave property.  I
  sometimes have to press a key twice before the character appears, and
  I cannot log in successfully.  The other consoles work correctly.

  5) Other notes

  I'm using SLiM for my login manager, and I've disabled the graphic
  splash screen by setting the GRUB command line in /etc/default/grub as
  follows:

  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="i915.modeset=1"

  "i915.modeset=1" is there as a workaround for bug #566379.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: upstart 0.6.5-7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.34-020634-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Sep  5 14:34:40 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: upstart

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