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Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com> skribis:

> On 10/05/2014 08:29 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>>>> I haven=E2=80=99t tried agetty, but it seems to have a hard-coded defa=
ult login
>>>> program of =E2=80=9C/bin/login=E2=80=9D, which doesn=E2=80=99t exist h=
ere.  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).

Run =E2=80=98guix package -i strace=E2=80=99.  Preferably register hydra.gn=
u.org.pub to
enable =E2=80=9Csubstitutes=E2=80=9D before doing that, so the system doesn=
=E2=80=99t end up
building the world (info "(guix) Substitutes").

HTH,
Ludo=E2=80=99.