Hi Ludo' thank you for looking into this issue! Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] > I also get this behavior. OK, so this is deterministic now :-) > What happens is that the /dev/ttyN nodes do not exist (understandably), > and thus the ‘console-font-ttyN’ Shepherd services fail to start, and > get restarted, indefinitely. actually they do fail but they are not respawned, the services that get respawned are term-tty[1..6] > The container is working as expected though. If you find the PID of the > container’s ‘shepherd’ process (its PID 1, which obviously has a > different PID outside the container), then you can do: > > guix container exec NNN /bin/sh I have to use "sudo" to be able to start and "guix container exec" a shell in it (I mean: sudo guix container exec...) I used that command in another terminal so I could see the console messages from the container > where NNN is that PID of that ‘shepherd’ process (I use ‘pstree’ to find > the PID… not very convenient.) oh yes! I did not realized that my container was there waiting for me :-) ...I also did not realized thet the container is started as a foreground process, so we nees to background I used pstree too, we need a better way to interact with a container (by name and not by PID); sorry but I still cannot help here, my Guile proficency is still too low; anyway this is tangent to this bug > In that shell, you can do: [...] > So in that sense everything is working “as expected.” yes, I see: I stopped term-tty[1..6] and the failure messages disappeared > Now, it would make more sense to simply remove those ‘console-font-ttyN’ > services in a container and everything that depends on them. as pointed above the faining services are term-tty[1..6], console-font-tty[1..6] fails but do not get respawned do they are not the real issue > Not sure if we should do that automatically. I'll try to remove term-tty[1..6] manually from services declaration, if I manage to "manually" solve this I'll report here > Thoughts? since mingetty does not make sense in a container I'd remove term-tty[1..6] (and console-font-tty[1..6]) automatically and by default when we create a container via "guix system container..." Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures