When I upgrade my live image building system from Lenny to Squeeze, the live-getty option is not working any more.

In config/binary
LB_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE="8250.nr_uarts=6 live-getty console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 ip=frommedia quiet textonly"
After building the image with "lb build", the login/shell prompt never appears on the serial port. This used to be working with previous version of live-helper.

Tried putting a modified inittab file into config/chroot_local-include/etc will results in incorrect modified entry. I've found the same issue on debian bug #442289.

This is installed on my build system:

ii  live-build                         2.0.5-1                     Debian Live - System Build Scripts


Following is the package info from the live system

root@debian:~# dpkg -l |grep -i live-
ii  live-boot                                2.0.11-1                    Debian Live - System Boot Scripts
ii  live-boot-initramfs-tools                2.0.11-1                    Debian Live - System Boot Scripts (initramfs-tools backend)
ii  live-config                              2.0.11-1                    Debian Live - System Configuration Scripts
ii  live-config-sysvinit                     2.0.11-1                    Debian Live - System Configuration Scripts (sysvinit backend)
ii  live-initramfs                           2.0.11-1                    Debian Live - System Boot Scripts (transitional package)

reassign 602788 live-boot
severity 602788 wishlist
retitle 602788 support for serial console
thanks

this is a known regression, see
http://live.debian.net/gitweb?p=live-config.git;a=blob;f=docs/README;h=8059e3d8d2be6616d30f9e695472d4992387f7d2;hb=HEAD

i've got no sane testing environment for this, so it's not likely going
to be fixed soon. however, patches are of course welcome.

This is affecting me too. FYI, you can test serial support for a live image
with something like:

    $ qemu -hda binary.img -serial stdio

Serial console then appears on the command line.

I've poked around to try to fix it (or work around it), but haven't really
gotten anywhere. Any tips on where to start?

— Jason

I've attached a hacky little sed script that Works For Me (goes in
config/includes.chroot/lib/live/config) — it requires manual tweaking for
different device names, and is certainly no replacement for the original
live-getty script. But it might help others who just need to get something
up and running.

Cheers,
Jason

Jason Heeris's script worked for me after I changed it to
9999-serial_console (to run later). it only needs to run after
0170-sysvinit, so a lower priority like 1190 would be fine.

a partial fix might be to re-write the offending sed in 0170-sysvinit
(UNTESTED):

   \(tty[0-9]*\) -> \(tty[A-Z0-9]*\)

this would correctly mangle many custom /etc/inittab files.

Hi Jason, Daniel and bnewbold,

I know, this bug is pretty old, but I'd like to close it in some way.

The original report was against the 2.x series of live tools released in
Squeeze. Today, I retried the 4.x Jessie images in QEMU and if I add
"-serial stdio" to the QEMU options and boot the kernel with
"console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8" stuff seems just to work.

Can you confirm that? If you can, I'd just close this bug as fixed in
the Jessie version and carry on :)

Greets
Evgeni

control: found -1 5.20151121
control: retitle -1 autologin on serial-console missing

Hi,

so passing "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8" works fine in the Stretch
based (systemd) images too, but there is no autologin on ttyS0.

I'd say this is half a regression and we should fix that in live-config.

Greets
Evgeni

Hi,

The attached patch should (I will test it tomorrow) fix the problem.