Re: [gentoo-user] trying to turn numlock automatically in my ttys under systemd

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 4:06 AM,  <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > Hi.  I want to turn numlock automatically, but I am using systemd and I
> > am having troubles doing this.  At someones suggestion in a previous
> > message (I think Canek's) I created
> > /etc/systemd/system/getty@service.d/numlock.conf with the following
> > contents
> >
> > [Service]
> > ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/setleds -D -num </dev/%I
> >
> >
> > However, setleds dies with the following error:
> > Jun 19 14:24:55 ccs.covici.com setleds[4878]: KDGKBLED: Inappropriate
> > ioctl for device
> > Jun 19 14:24:55 ccs.covici.com setleds[4878]: Error reading current
> > flags setting. Maybe you are not on the console?
> >
> > I tried to fool with chvt to make the console current, but no joy there.
> >
> > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
> Could you post the exact invocation for setleds? It should be on the
> logs. I think the invocation for setleds shuld be:
> 
> /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < /dev/%i
> 
> The difference between %I (capital "i") and %i is only that %i escapes
> special symbols, but since it's only the string tty[1-N], I don't
> think it matters much.
> 
> The exact invocation of setleds matters, so we can see if the template
> unit is generating the correct one.

Thanks for your response,  First of all I want -num and not +num, but
that does not make any difference.  I am using your unit from
/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service and add the following in the
.conf file
[Service]
ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/setleds -D -num </dev/%I
The invocation is not in the logs, all I get is the following:
Jun 19 14:26:26 ccs.covici.com systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty8.
Jun 19 14:26:26 ccs.covici.com setleds[5100]: KDGKBLED: Inappropriate
ioctl for device
Jun 19 14:26:26 ccs.covici.com setleds[5100]: Error reading current
flags setting. Maybe you are not on the console?
Jun 19 14:26:26 ccs.covici.com systemd[1]: getty@tty8.service: control
process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 19 14:26:26 ccs.covici.com systemd[1]: Unit getty@tty8.service
entered failed state.

But I know that %I is tty8 or whatever the device is.  I checked with a
shell script to make sure.



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