fails to lock on aarch64

[HalosGhost]

I have a pinebook running alarm. After having built physlock for aarch64 and installed it, it fails to run with the following error:

physlock: /dev/console: VT_GETSTATE: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Any idea what this problem might stem from or if there is a simple way to fix it?

[xyb3rt]

Do you have any console= options on your kernel command line (grep console /proc/cmdline)? Does it work if you change the CONSOLE_DEVICE variable in your config.h to /dev/tty0?

[HalosGhost]

Yes, I do actually. Here's the whole /proc/cmdline:

console=ttyS0,115200n8 enforcing=0 cma-384M no_console_suspend androidboot.serialno=<snip> androidboot.hardware=sun50iw1p1 androidboot.selinux=permissive earlyprintk=sunxi-uart,0x01c28000 loglevel=8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 eth0_speed=auto

Though this is a weird embedded platform, I do have access to modify those arguments (though they were set by-default so I am a little wary of modifying them).

And yes! changing that option in config.h solves the issue. Is this just an oddity of the cmdline arguments on my machine?

[xyb3rt]

You are just the first one who uses physlock on a device with a serial console. Using /dev/tty0 is the correct device for the foreground virtual console, not /dev/console.

Thanks for reporting the issue and have fun.

[HalosGhost]

Cheers, thanks!