Login prompt broken on tty1

[IvoKara]

Firstly I wanted to thank you, this project is amazing!

I have tried several ways to do this but the end result is the same.

I have successfully configured my custom distro.img image ready to be flashed on SD card.

After a successful flash, everything looks promising until I plug the SD card on my Raspberry Pi 4.

It boots without any problems until it reaches this point and it just freezes and do not proceed further:

[  OK  ] Finished systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service - Record Runlevel Change in UTMP.

I have tried several ways to flash the image:

• With different way of flashing
  • by exporting and flashing with balenaEtcher
  • by exporting and flashing with Pi-Imager
  • by flashing directly with docker rum --rm -it ptrsr/pi-ci flash command on a linux machine
  • by flashing with dd
• SD is not corrupted have booted the stock Raspberry Pi OS bookworm lite without problem

And the strangest thing of all is that I can ssh to my pi from another machine from the local network and everything seems ok ...?

Any clarifications would be helpful.

Tkanks!

[ptrsr]

Hi @IvoKara , thanks for your kind words and interest in the project!

It could be that after the login prompt is reached (on the TTY), additional services reach a "OK" state and overwrite the prompt. Could you try typing something to see if the prompt shows up again?

Thanks,
R.

[IvoKara]

Yep, what I actually did and worked is to copy the override.conf from the [email protected] configuration file and put it inside [email protected] directory in /etc/systemd/system

cd /etc/systemd/system/
cp  [email protected]/override.conf [email protected]/override.conf

As I believe that you set up /dev/ttyAMA0 in order to be able to log in into the VM from the emulator.

In fact everything was working, nothing was freezed or stuck, because when my Raspberry Pi booted I pressed Ctrl + Alt + F3 which opened /dev/tty3 and then I was able to log in.

Maybe /dev/tty1 was not properly configured or have some problems so that it stops to the provided log message and do not proceed with anything.

[ptrsr]

Aaah you're right. When upgrading to bookworm, I noticed that the login prompt was changed from ttyAMA0 to tty1. For the emulator (QEMU) this is fine, but for the real Pi this may not work anymore with the override.

I'll have a look in the next couple weeks, thanks for pointing this out!

[ptrsr]

Story

Fix the login prompt (getty) on tty1.

Test

GIVEN the default distro image included in PI-CI
WHEN the default image is flashed on an SD card and started using a physical RPi
THEN the user should be able to log in using the default TTY (tty1).

Current behavior

• TODO (needs further testing)