> suspicious that I am compelled to ask if you are really sure that is > the correlation? Please double check. Yes, I double checked that. As soon as I revert back to installing xdm, the login console appears on Serial Port 1.
> Are there any messaged logged to /var/log/syslog concerning failure of > getty to start on /dev/ttyS0? No there are none. > If you run 'ps' do you see the getting running? > > $ ps -ef |grep getty The above command returns nothing i.e it looks like getty is not started at all. > Both of these, the getting on the serial port and the gdm automated > login, work fine together for me. Since this is using gdm > configuration to automatically log in a user it is different from your > using su and startx from the rc.local though. May be that's the reason. But just like you even I am very surprised to see that /etc/inittab is not executed/sourced when using su and startx method via rc.local. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/calxxvm7lxrbh-0anjq1r9gbxnhzrbmoehl7vj4oikrxcm0-...@mail.gmail.com
