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

["Jc García" <jyo.garcia@gmail.com>]

2014-06-20 10:53 GMT-06:00  <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

Check my post above, I found the issue with running this  command , I
wanted '+num' so thats the only diference.

> 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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