bug#34211: error running container: mingetty cannot find ttys

[Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>]

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Hi Arun,

Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:

>> please any hint on how to "manually" remove those two failing services?
>
> You should do something along the lines of the following:
>
> (remove (lambda (service)
>           (let ((type (service-type-name (service-kind service))))
>             (or (eq? type 'mingetty)
>                 (eq? type 'console-fonts))))
>         %base-services)

[...]

thank you for your suggestion but this does not work

in everyone is willing to reproduce this bug [1] this is the container
config:


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(use-modules (gnu))
(use-modules (rnrs lists))

(operating-system
  (host-name "test-container")
  (timezone "Europe/Rome")
  (locale "en_US.utf8")

  ;; Boot in "legacy" BIOS mode
  (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
                (bootloader grub-bootloader)
                (target "/dev/sda")))

  (file-systems (cons (file-system
                        (device (file-system-label "guixsd"))
                        (mount-point "/")
                        (type "ext4"))
                      %base-file-systems))
  
  ;; This is where user accounts are specified.  The "root"
  ;; account is implicit, and is initially created with the
  ;; empty password.
  (users (cons (user-account
                (name "test")
                (comment "Test User")
                (group "users")
                (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "audio" "video"))
                (home-directory "/home/test"))
               %base-user-accounts))
  
  ;; Globally-installed packages.
  (packages (cons* %base-packages))

  ;; remove mingetty and console-fonts from container
  (services (cons* (remove (lambda (service)
			     (let ((type (service-type-name (service-kind service))))
			       (or (eq? type 'mingetty)
				   (eq? type 'console-fonts))))
			   %base-services))))

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it's _very_ lightweight so it'll not waste your store space, to test it
just do

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ rm container-minimal
$ guix system container container-minimal.scm -r container-minimal
$ sudo ./container-minimal
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

in all my tests mingetty gets started and respawned, I can enter the
container and manually stop term-tty[1..6] services

Thanks!
Giovanni

[1] may it depend on my user environment? I'm on a foreign distro
(Debian 9.7)

-- 
Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures