Hi, On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 08:42:08PM -0500, Titus Newswanger wrote: > I recall seeing something similar, where I thought boot didn't complete, > then discovered if I tap the 'enter' key, the login prompt appeared. I > wasn't sure what caused that behavior, my guess is there may have been some > error messages printed to my terminal, scrolling the login text up off the > screen.
systemd runs an agetty process on each tty, but if there is no activity within a certain time it kills that process which clears the screen and leaves no visible login: prompt until a key is pressed. This behaviour can be disabled by overriding the getty@.service with: [Service] TTYVTDisallocate=no That will cause the agetty process per tty to stay around. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
