Re: GUIX 0.7 under QEMU/KVM with virtio

[Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On 10/05/2014 08:29 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> I haven’t tried agetty, but it seems to have a hard-coded default login
>>> program of “/bin/login”, which doesn’t exist here.  Could you try
>>> invoking it with -l $(guix build shadow)/bin/login ?
>>>
>>> Alternately you could try adding a mingetty service to the
>>> configuration:
>>>
>>>     (operating-system
>>>       ...
>>>       (services (cons (mingetty-service "ttyS0")
>>>                       %base-services)))
>>>
>>
>> I still can't get serial console to work, perhaps needs more fidgeting.
>
> Did you try agetty with -l as suggested above?
>

Yes. Same as before - it exists after a timeout of few seconds.

>> Trying "mingetty ttyS0" from the command line fails with:
>>      ttyS0: no controlling tty: Operation not permitted
>
> Is mingetty running as root here?  If it is, could you strace it to see
> exactly what returns EPERM?
>

Yes. Running as root.

I don't have "strace" installed - how do I install it ? (I'm very new to guix).

Thanks,
  - Assaf