02/02: gnu: hurd: "/libexec/rc" spawns the console client.

[guix-commits]

civodul pushed a commit to branch wip-hurd-vm
in repository guix.

commit 0e616dd6bffe4f396af80c814d6c6b4c6efbf7f5
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Wed Apr 8 15:35:58 2020 +0200

    gnu: hurd: "/libexec/rc" spawns the console client.
    
    * gnu/packages/hurd.scm (hurd-rc-script): Start the console client.
---
 gnu/packages/hurd.scm | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/hurd.scm b/gnu/packages/hurd.scm
index ffbde2e..ab42032 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/hurd.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/hurd.scm
@@ -340,7 +340,12 @@ boot, since this cannot be done from GNU/Linux."
                        (unless (translated? node)
                          (mkdir-p (dirname node))
                          (apply invoke "settrans" "-c" node command))))
-                    '#$translators))))
+                    '#$translators)
+
+          ;; Start the oh-so-fancy console client.
+          (mkdir-p "/var/run")                    ;for the PID file
+          (invoke "console" "--daemonize" "-c" "/dev/vcs"
+                  "-d" "vga" "-d" "pc_kbd" "-d" "generic_speaker"))))
 
   ;; FIXME: We want the program to use the cross-compiled Guile when
   ;; cross-compiling.  But why do we need to be explicit here?