Created attachment 634160 [details] slightly modified serial-getty@.service Description of problem: The unit file serial-getty@.service contains the line Environment=TERM=vt102 with the intention to pass it to the environment of the new shell but it looks as if it is ignored by agetty. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 44-20.fc17 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. instantiate a getty for a serial line 2. log in 3. echo $TERM Actual results: The value "linux" is assigned to TERM Expected results: The value "vt102" should be assigned to TERM Additional info: The attached unit file which basically appends vt102 to ExecStart works for me.
agetty always overrides the TERM variable with its own logic, unless the third argument is specified. That explains why Environment has no effect. Furthermore, I believe there's a bug in agetty. It attempts to detect the distinction between the vc and a serial line and set TERM accordingly, but it does not work as expected. I will send Karel a fix.
fixed upstream: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=2161de72c517d34d1ceb9b4c1a300f0b54ce5a9c
systemd-195-10.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemd-195-10.fc18
Package systemd-195-10.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing systemd-195-10.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-19811/systemd-195-10.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
systemd-195-10.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.