From a043b5b81a080c47e24298c80857919b9ea21bb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 00:11:45 +0200
Subject: services: mingetty: Use '--nohangup'.

See the discussion at
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-07/msg00049.html>.

* gnu/services/base.scm (mingetty-shepherd-service): Pass "--nohangup"
to mingetty.
---
 gnu/services/base.scm | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'gnu')

diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index 68411439db..9fad9af99f 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -1113,7 +1113,14 @@ the tty to run, among other things."
 
        (start  #~(make-forkexec-constructor
                   (list #$(file-append mingetty "/sbin/mingetty")
-                        "--noclear" #$tty
+                        "--noclear"
+
+                        ;; Avoiding 'vhangup' allows us to avoid 'setfont'
+                        ;; errors down the path where various ioctls get
+                        ;; EIO--see 'hung_up_tty_ioctl' in driver/tty/tty_io.c
+                        ;; in Linux.
+                        "--nohangup" #$tty
+
                         #$@(if auto-login
                                #~("--autologin" #$auto-login)
                                #~())
-- 
cgit 1.4.1