getty at tty1.service (was: 108 seconds to start F18 64)

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2013-01-13 at 20:35 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2013-01-07 17:04 (GMT-0700) Kevin Fenzi composed:
> 
> > On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:55:12 -0500 Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> >> I've yet to stumble onto a reliable doc for dealing with that file,
> >> which is a symlink to /usr/lib/systemd/system/getty at .service. There
> >> is no man page for getty at .service or getty at tty1.service. I've seen
> >> bits here and there on getting tty1 to not clear, but I never manage
> >> to get it to not happen without multiple reconfiguration attempts,
> >> and reboots.
> 
> > 'man systemd.unit'
> 
> > "       Optionally, units may be instantiated from a template file at
> > runtime. This allows creation of multiple units from a single
> > configuration file. If systemd looks for a unit configuration file it
> > will first search for the literal unit name in the filesystem. If that
> > yields no success and the unit name contains an @ character, systemd
> > will look for a unit template that shares the same name but with the
> > instance string (i.e. the part between the @ character and the suffix)
> > removed. Example: if a service getty at tty3.service is requested and no
> > file by that name is found, systemd will look for getty at .service and
> > instantiate a service from that configuration file if it is found."
> 
> > 'systemctl enable getty at tty2.service'
> 
> > should do the trick (and tty3, etc).
> 
> Failed to issue method call: Invalid argument. :-(

Try with getty at tty2.service in quotes - "getty at tty2.service" - at a
guess, the @ is screwing up bash.
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