Re: The welcome screens in tty are repeated 3 times after booting the system

Ionen Wolkens <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 20:24:07 -0400
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On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 11:16:22PM +0200, Vladimir K. wrote:
> Hello!
> For the first time I came across a strange display of login via tty1.
> After starting the system, the login is displayed 3 times, and exactly 4 =
seconds
> pass after the first prompt, and exactly 2 seconds after the second. I di=
d not
> change /etc/inittab on my own, and the agetty service also does not start=
=2E Below
> is what the login replays look like.
>=20
> This is pc-gentoo (Linux x86_64 6.18.41-gentoo-source) 01:52:35
> pc-gentoo login:
> This is pc-gentoo (Linux x86_64 6.18.41-gentoo-source) 01:52:39
> pc-gentoo login:
> This is pc-gentoo (Linux x86_64 6.18.41-gentoo-source) 01:52:41
> pc-gentoo login:
>=20
> This is not something critical, but I would like to understand why this is
> happening.
> I'm sorry if I missed something important, I'm a new user of Gentoo and
> GNU/Linux in general. I would be grateful for any help.
>=20

This is likely [1], there is a workaround in [2] or alternatively could
go back to ~sys-apps/util-linux-2.41.5 until this is fixed.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/976967
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/976967#c3
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