[poky] Serial console unusable with poky-image-sdk

[Wolfgang Denk]

Hi,

it seems that for some time (probably back to laverne-4.0) the serial
console port is basicly unusable in the poky-image-sdk file system.
I tried this in several PPC and ARM configurations, and the behaviours
is pretty much the same: login works fine, but at the shell prompt
only one out of N input characters (N usually between 2 and 10) gets
through to the shell.

I found that dbus-launch (running as "dbus-launch --sh-syntax
--exit-with-session") is also reading from /dev/console and "eating"
the missing characters.

As soon as I stop the Xserver ("sh /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm stop")
the serial console starts wroking fine (because dbus-launch is not
running any more).

Is there a way to stop dbus-launch from concurring with a login shell
on the serial console port?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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