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  1. Artful (17.10)
  2. Bug #1675453
  3. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1675453

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1675453] Re: During d-i install of ubuntu-server from mini.iso I get no login prompt

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 09:20:09AM -0000, Łukasz Zemczak wrote:
> The reason for this happening is that apparently this ubuntu-server
> image is booting with vt.handoff=7 while in systemd's logind we're only
> using the default number of configured tty's (i.e. 6). So plymouth is
> running, doing it's thing and then switches to tty7 which is not
> enabled. This can be confirmed by either increasing logind's number of
> tty's or by enforcing vt.handoff=1.

> Need to look into how we had this configured in earlier versions. I'd
> opt for restoring vt.handoff=1 in this case.

We should discontinue use of vt.handoff in 18.04; this has been agreed
elsewhere.

'vt.handoff=1' is pointless - VT1 is the default VT. The option should just
be dropped.