finish-install disables virtual consoles on serial console installs

[Mark Bergsma]

When installing using a serial console, /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/90console correctly sets up a serial console in /etc/inittab, but also *disables* all virtual consoles. Apparently there is a genuine reason for that:

* Joshua Kwan
  - Comment out tty* getty invocations in /target/etc/inittab when
    you install over serial console, because it's likely that you'll
    not have a real tty upon restart (thus preventing annoying spam
    from init about getty respawning.)

However, this is not always wanted. Often, console access using the /dev/tty[0-6] is also required, e.g. when physical maintenance people need to work on a server. It would be nice if there was better autodetection of this, or a way to manually select or preseed the desired behaviour.

Perhaps check whether "console=tty0" is present in the kernel command line arguments, in addition to ttyS0?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!