From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George myglc2 Clemmer Subject: bug#30467: GuixSD fails to display login prompt on headless server Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:46:42 -0500 Message-ID: <86a7vzbtel.fsf@gmail.com> References: <868tbu9u0r.fsf@gmail.com> <20180215165455.09a9efa3@scratchpost.org> <86y3jundqw.fsf@gmail.com> <20180216015312.416091f0@scratchpost.org> <868tbtlnmp.fsf@gmail.com> <20180217180348.1961da18@scratchpost.org> <86mv01iz6h.fsf@gmail.com> <20180222124139.26626adf@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1epFYv-0004Px-UY for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:47:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1epFYs-0000gD-Lg for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:47:06 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1epFYs-0000fd-Ha for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:47:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1epFYs-0004lK-0G for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:47:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-reply-to: <20180222124139.26626adf@scratchpost.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: 30467@debbugs.gnu.org On 02/22/2018 at 11:41 Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi George, > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 20:35:34 -0500 > George myglc2 Clemmer wrote: > >> I think we got side-tracked to the serial port when my real issue is >> with the VGA port. Maybe my bug report was not clear. Let me clarify ... > > Oh, that changes things. Ludo is debugging some silly UTF-8 problem > with the virtual terminals on the VGA port right now - might be related, > or not. Who knows... Well this problem goes back to November. The problem first appears in my generation 19 ... 19 GNU with Linux-Libre 4.14.2 (beta) 61 2017-11-30 19:18:15 18 GNU with Linux-Libre 4.13.12 (beta) 62 2017-11-11 13:05:56 ... which correspond to ... 19 (GNU Guix) 0.13.0.5042-6e385 18 (GNU Guix) 0.13.0.4589-74bea6 Note: The results cited below are WRT my most recent build done yesterday, guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.2455-26737. >> GNU with Linuxlibre ..." for a couple seconds, and then 4) a blank. > > Is there still a cursor? NO. > What happens when you don't use the serial (so no console=...) The VGA displays ... - BIOS prompt - grub menu - 'Booting GNU linux-libre ...' - ~1 seconds of messages - Blank screen w/ no cursor ... which differers in that there are a couple seconds of boot messages. > and then > try to write something to /dev/console ? It should show up somewhere. > Where? On the VGA port? /home/g1# echo 123 > /dev/console ... shows nothing on the VGA or serial.