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.
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.