In systemd we are currently spawning a getty when console= points to a serial port on that serial port. Using agetty for that is not easy since it likes to override the already configured baudrate with its own settings. It would be cool if agetty would just reuse the serial settings the kernel configured on the port anyway. That way we could just spawn the getty and the settings specified on the kernel command line would be the only ones that matter. In the times before systemd a tool included in the initscripts package used to read the baud rate from the device and then pass that to agetty. I think it is much cleaner if we can do without such a tool and have agetty just reuse the existing configuration. Would love if this could happen before the F14 release.
I have added: -s Try to keep the existing baud rate. The baud rates from the command line are used when agetty receives a BREAK character. For example: /sbin/agetty -s ttyname 9600 then the baud rate 9600 will be used when kernel setting is useless.
util-linux-ng-2.18-4.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/util-linux-ng-2.18-4.fc14
util-linux-ng-2.18-4.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update util-linux-ng'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/util-linux-ng-2.18-4.fc14
Awesome, you rock.
util-linux-ng-2.18-4.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
The implementation in rawhide is not working correctly on a newly installed system. I have filed bug #645640.
I see 2.18-5 was built for rawhide but it hasn't turned up there yet. I just pulled the packages from Koji and tested them. I can confirm that the fixed package does correct the problem. Can you get it pushed out, please? [setting back to assigned to ensure the rawhide bit goes out]