chessy-overlay-minimal" forces console vt

[Tom Gall]

As part of testing the linaro-alip seed, we'd like to have linaro-alip auto start gdm on boot up for a graphical xfce session.

Unfortunately something in chessy-overlay-minimal is preventing this to occur. What happens is the system does not switch over to vt7. While X starts (using /usr/bin/X :0 -br -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-khgTbx/database -nolisten tcp vt7) the system never switches over from the text cons.

This was tested on a Beagleboard rev C4.

If I remove chessy-overlay-minimal from the system entirely then gdm starts as it should at bootup.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Here is a replacement /etc/init/openvt.conf job that should avoid this property, and open our auto-login shell on tty1 instead of tty7 while not interfering with X's VT switch:

  start on starting tty1

  respawn
  pre-start exec stop tty1
  exec /bin/openvt -e -c 1 -- /bin/auto-root-login

Can you see whether replacing openvt.conf with this fixes the behavior for you?

[Tom Gall (tom-gall)]

This fixes it.

Thank you!

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Thanks for confirming; I've pushed this fix to the Linaro overlay ppa. Changelog entry is:

   * etc/init/openvt.conf: instead of opening the next VT and switching to it,
     just stop the standard tty1 job from ours and claim VT1; this lets us
     get the foreground terminal by default on console-only systems, while
     not interfering with X's VT switch in the GUI case. LP: #632720.