sulogin on serial

[glance]

Binary package hint: upstart

cat /proc/cmdline
... console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8

cat /etc/event.d/ttyS0
# ttyS0 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on ttyS0 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5

stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 6

respawn
exec /sbin/getty 115200 ttyS0

when taking the machine down to single-user , upstart starts a sulogin on the console, in this case ttyS0, but the sulogin-prompt is unusable because getty has changed tty-settings so icanon is of and that makes it inposible to login via sulogin.

the relevant diffrences is that getty setts:
-brkint -ignpar -icrnl -opost -onlcr -isig -icanon -echoctl -echoke

quick'n'dirty solution is to put a stty sane before the sulogin-row as attatched patch, but more correct solution is probably to patch sulogin

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

There is no ttyS0 shipped with Upstart. Also if sulogin needs a sane tty, *it* should do the stty necessary

[glance (glance-acc)]

Reassigning this bug to sysvutils them.