#1014316 Unexpected behavior at login prompt

Package:
kmscon
Source:
kmscon
Description:
Simple terminal emulator based on Kernel Mode Setting
Submitter:
Joseph Carter
Date:
2022-07-05 22:36:03 UTC
Severity:
minor
#1014316#5
Date:
2022-07-04 00:47:29 UTC
From:
To:
I recently wound up with an ulltrawide monitor that is effectively a 4k
screen with a haircut at 1600 lines … and I'm legally blind. So let me
say that I greatly appreciate this package and the ease with which I
specified a custom DPI to get readable fonts at the console—thank you
for packaging it.

I also appreciate the standard getty fallback. The other distribution
thus far that seems to have kmscon as an option is arch (because of
course it does) and … they describe configuring a specific tty for getty
in case kmscon fails. An automatic fallback seems more elegant.

That said, it behaves a bit strangely prior to logging in, and these
things cause minor usability issues. Chief among these is that backspace
doesn't work. My password is deliberately not short (as in xkcd 936 not
short), and I sometimes mistype it. I've learned that the backspace key
does not work at this login prompt.

It also doesn't display /etc/issue which might be a symptom of the same
issue, being a different login process than is typically used by Debian
at the console? There might be a workaround, in that case, to run the
more traditional login process under kmscon, but I haven't really
researched that yet and that wouldn't change the default anyway, so a
report is still warranted IMO.
#1014316#10
Date:
2022-07-05 12:59:00 UTC
From:
To:
Thank you for your praise.
This is indeed an error. I will try to get this fixed.
It is caused by running /bin/login directly instead of using (a)getty.
I'll see what the best solution is, but the fastest solution is to
update the shipped systemd unit file to use agetty. In some quick
testing on my own computer, this fixes both issues.

I'll see if I can get a new version uploaded today.
#1014316#15
Date:
2022-07-05 22:33:53 UTC
From:
To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
kmscon, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1014316@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Victor Westerhuis <victor@westerhu.is> (supplier of updated kmscon package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:14:32 +0200
Source: kmscon
Architecture: source
Version: 9.0.0-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Victor Westerhuis <victor@westerhu.is>
Changed-By: Victor Westerhuis <victor@westerhu.is>
Closes: 1014316
Changes:
 kmscon (9.0.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Run agetty instead of login (Closes: #1014316)
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.1
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