Re: GUIX 0.7 under QEMU/KVM with virtio

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On 10/05/2014 08:29 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > > I haven’t tried agetty, but it seems to have a hard-coded default login
> > > program of “/bin/login”, which doesn’t exist here.  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).

Thanks,
 - Assaf