getty is run before it's usable

[Ondřej Surý]

getty is run on ttys before:
- hostname is set (this leads to printing "(none)" instead of hostname in prompt)
- all filesystems are mounted (you could login before your home dir is mounted)

Ondrej

[John (john.e)]

I agree, same here.

[Johan Kiviniemi (ion)]

The tty* jobs are in the upstart package, and as it doesn't depend on upstart-compat-sysv, this is somewhat tricky.

I think the final solution is migrating essential things from rcS to upstart jobs. Then tty* can be made start on a suitable event from them.

In the meantime, you can modify /etc/event.d/tty* to "start on rcS" instead of starting on "startup" (as long as you have upstart-compat-sysv installed). You might also want to add a "console output" or "console owner" line to /etc/event.d/rcS 1) to see rcS's output and 2) to be able to e.g. type a password if you have an encrypted partition.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

I'll move the tty scripts to the system-services package, which can depend on upstart-compat-sysv for now :)

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

But yet, you're right about the long term

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

This is a "patch" fix to make sure that the gettys are run at a reasonable time for now

 upstart (0.2.1-6) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * Make packages Essential, and change Depends to Pre-Depends so that the
     packages work when unconfigured (nothing interesting is performed in
     postinst). Ubuntu: #59005.
   * Sync priority in debian/control with that in the archive (required)
   * Drop warning of dire consequences if you install upstart, seeing as it's
     installed by default.
 .
   * Add new startup-tasks and system-services packages which will contain
     the /etc/event.d files themselves (other than the main ones).
   * Move tty definitions into system-services.
   * Modify tty definitions to start when the rcS task has finished. This
     puts them in the "right" place when compared to gdm. Ubuntu: #58630.
 .
   * Correct rcS compatibility script to ignore any information in utmp so
     that all scripts are always run. Ubuntu: #59203.
   * Make rcS the console owner while it runs, temporary fix for
     Ubuntu: #58609, #58794, #58796
   * Include default control-alt-delete handler that reboots the machine.