Comment 12 for bug 652221

Changing in like this:

--- init/openvt.conf 2010-10-08 04:00:41.000000000 +0000
+++ /etc/init/openvt.conf 2010-10-08 04:01:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # License: see debian/copyright
 #

-start on starting tty1
-
-respawn
+start on started tty1
+console output
+#respawn
 pre-start exec stop tty1
-exec /bin/openvt -e -c 1 -- /bin/auto-root-login
+exec /bin/openvt -f -e -c 1 -- /bin/auto-root-login

gets it to start up as appears to be desired. But when I reboot, I see on the monitor, though not on the console, a message:

uart_close: bad serial port count; tty->count is 1, port->count is 2

So maybe there's some bug where vts don't get let go of as they should?

In any case, I don't think the respawn will work as intended, because the pre-start stop of tty1 won't work more than once.