Bug#760916: brltty interferes with getty autostart

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2015/01/21 at 01:10 +0100]

>> But isn't there still the risk that brltty opening tty1 for this purpose may 
>> prevent systemd-login from starting getty on tty1?
>
>systemd-login always starts getty on tty1.

On my Fedora systems - which are managed by systemd - X starts on tty1. Of 
course, X doesn't start till later, so, for most of the boot, nothing is 
running on tty1.

Something else to consider is the desire for brltty to start as soon as 
possible. Ideally, it should be able to start before things like the fscks so 
that a braille user can manage his own system failures. This, of course, would 
be way before any getty would be started. I suspect that vt_stat would be 0 at 
this point, so we either disallow a braille user to deal with early boot 
problems or we need to dream up some other approach.

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