Dear Maintainer(s),

debvm monkey patches serial-getty@.service to inject '-a root' for
autologin. But this is fragile and breaks when the context changes, as
it has happened in systemd v259 where the ExecStart line changed a
bit. This causes debvm to break the unit by injecting an empty
ExecStart= without the override, so console login is broken.

Fortunately with util-linux 2.40 and systemd v247 we have much better
mechanism to configure getty, via credentials, so I've opened a MR to
do just that:

https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/debvm/-/merge_requests/58

I would greatly appreciate an upload at your earliest convenience as
autopkgtest failure means src:systemd cannot migrate.

Thanks

Hi Luca,

I'm sorry about that. I was not happy about this, but it was one of the
few ways that worked across a lot of Debian releases.

Thank you. The credential approach is quite an improvement even though
we get to keep the fallback.

I fear my earliest convenience is taking too long for your matters as
I'd defer it to next week. However, I do agree that this is an RC bug in
debvm and asked the release team to override the autopkgtest failure.
Paul Gevers kindly enacted it and I hope that systemd will be able to
migrate soon.

Thanks for your understanding

Helmut

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debvm, 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 1120943@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> (supplier of updated debvm package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:02:54 +0100
Source: debvm
Architecture: source
Version: 0.5.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Changed-By: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Closes: 1120943
Changes:
 debvm (0.5.0) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   This release drops support for running on bookworm as it now uses
   mkfs.ext4's libarchive support for creating a filesystem from a tar.
 .
   [ Jochen Sprickerhof ]
   * *-create: Refuse overwriting images
   * debefivm-run: only use the console in nographics mode
   * Restructure source repository to look more like an installation
   * useraddhook: use passwd from host and --prefix (Closes: salsa#24)
 .
   [ Helmut Grohne ]
   * debefivm-create: avoid chrooting in chrootless mode
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   * *-create: only use the maybe-merged-usr hook when needed
   * *-run: lower gic-version for arm32 to 2
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   * debvm-create: use numfmt for parsing the --size argument
 .
   [ Jochen Sprickerhof and Helmut Grohne ]
   * Fail sensibly when required commands are missing
   * Prefer using the VM's systemctl over the host's
   * Use mkfs.ext4 with tarball
   * Add /sbin to $PATH
 .
   [ Luca Boccassi ]
   * autologin: prefer credentials to monkey patching unit (Closes: #1120943)
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