On Sun 13/01/13, 23:57, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Sudaraka Wijesinghe > <sudaraka.wijesinghe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > With reference to an issue I raised on this ML earlier: > > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-November/032201.html > > > > I was able to solve my issue by setting the service type (or unit type) > > of the systemd units that generate output after the login prompt to "idle". > > I think that's what the wiki suggests: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Automatic_login_to_virtual_console No. The wiki suggests to set Type=idle for the getty service, and this should avoid the pollution of the prompt, but fails to do so. By contrast, Sudara has been forced to set Type=idle for any other services that was polluting the getty prompt. Nonetheless it is a useful workaround until someone upstream happens to care about the bug.