Ubuntu
mgetty package

  1. Bug #990680
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 990680

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Luke (ljc-u) wrote :

Some good news, the current LTS release of Ubuntu server is running the Ubuntu/Debian distribution of mgetty just fine (info below). Mgetty now respawns (doesn't hang) like it did with 12.04 (described above).

I suspect the problem was with Upstart all along, however, the mgetty package in 14.04 LTS is an update from the one used in the the 12.04 LTS release.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/mgetty
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/mgetty

Luke

root@somewhere:/var/log/mgetty# uname -a
Linux somewhere 3.13.0-35-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 15 01:58:42 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@somewhere:/var/log/mgetty# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

root@somewhere:/var/log/mgetty# initctl --version
initctl (upstart 1.12.1)
Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Canonical Ltd., 2011 Scott James Remnant

root@somewhere:/var/log/mgetty# apt-cache show mgetty
Package: mgetty
Priority: extra
Section: universe/comm
Installed-Size: 369
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Andreas Barth <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.1.36-2ubuntu1

root@somewhere:/var/log/mgetty# dmesg | grep tty
[ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[ 0.874880] 0000:37:09.0: ttyS4 at I/O 0xe080 (irq = 21, base_baud = 921600) is a 16550A
[ 0.895245] 0000:37:09.0: ttyS5 at I/O 0xe088 (irq = 21, base_baud = 921600) is a 16550A
[14326.348920] init: ttyS4 main process ended, respawning
[14573.114758] init: ttyS4 main process (2530) terminated with status 10