From 78bce4363bb349a64ed98ac307421698c8f8e06e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora@redhat.com>

Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:57:18 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] console-getty.service: don't start when /dev/console is

 missing

Create minimal image which runs systemd

   FROM rhel7.1

   RUN yum install -y /usr/bin/ps

   ENV container docker

   CMD [ "/usr/sbin/init" ]

When you run the container without -t, the process

   /sbin/agetty --noclear --keep-baud console 115200 38400 9600

is not happy and checking the journal in the container, there is a stream of

Mar 13 04:50:15 11bf07f59fff agetty[66]: /dev/console: No such file or directory

Mar 13 04:50:25 11bf07f59fff systemd[1]: console-getty.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.

Mar 13 04:50:25 11bf07f59fff systemd[1]: Stopping Console Getty...

Mar 13 04:50:25 11bf07f59fff systemd[1]: Starting Console Getty...

Mar 13 04:50:25 11bf07f59fff systemd[1]: Started Console Getty.

Mar 13 04:50:25 11bf07f59fff agetty[67]: /dev/console: No such file or directory

Mar 13 04:50:35 11bf07f59fff systemd[1]: console-getty.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.

Mar 13 04:50:35 11bf07f59fff systemd[1]: Stopping Console Getty...

Mar 13 04:50:35 11bf07f59fff systemd[1]: Starting Console Getty...

Mar 13 04:50:35 11bf07f59fff systemd[1]: Started Console Getty.

Mar 13 04:50:35 11bf07f59fff agetty[74]: /dev/console: No such file or directory

Mar 13 04:50:45 11bf07f59fff systemd[1]: console-getty.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.

Mar 13 04:50:45 11bf07f59fff systemd[1]: Stopping Console Getty...

Mar 13 04:50:45 11bf07f59fff systemd[1]: Starting Console Getty...

(cherry picked from commit 1b41981d9a62443d566df6bcabc1b5024e9f5e4a)

---

 units/console-getty.service.m4.in | 1 +

 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/units/console-getty.service.m4.in b/units/console-getty.service.m4.in

index 8ac51a471b..413d94094b 100644

--- a/units/console-getty.service.m4.in

+++ b/units/console-getty.service.m4.in

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@

 Description=Console Getty

 Documentation=man:agetty(8)

 After=systemd-user-sessions.service plymouth-quit-wait.service

+ConditionPathExists=/dev/console

 m4_ifdef(`HAVE_SYSV_COMPAT',

 After=rc-local.service

 )m4_dnl