On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 07:24:17PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> When I connect to my physical device using the Keyspan USA-19H
> serial-to-USB converter, I can watch the system boot, but Shepherd never
> reports that the 'term-ttyS0' service has started, and I never see the
> MOTD or login prompt.
> 
> Any advice or debugging ideas?

Good news, it works!

My method of testing was no good.

I just successfully booted and logged in using attached diff on top of
the agetty-service patch.