Re: Getty stopped on rpi3 serial console serial console

On Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:49 PM Bakul Shah <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 18, 2026, at 4:42 PM, bob prohaska <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Likewise,
> > ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"      vt100   onifconsole secure
> > is in /etc/ttys
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> Check /var/log/messages to see if getty died due to a signal.
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Init will refuse to respawn getty if it dies too much / too quickly.

Warner

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> > There have been no intentional changes to the system in recent
> weeks/months,
> > the loss of getty on the console happened out of the blue, apparently in
> the
> > last few days.
> >
> > I suspect that rebooting will clear the difficulty, which I'll try in due
> > course if nothing else of interest emerges.
>
> No need to reboot.
> Does "sudo kill -HUP 1" start up a getty on ttyu0?
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