Erik Christiansen writes:
start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345] stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn exec /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1
Comment out those 4 lines, and see how you go.
Just comment out the "start on", preferably. If you're feeling more angry, you can rm it (conffiles preserve this across upgrades) or dpkg-divert it. I'm not convinced this will actually help -- I would expect the input to continue going through, just to a tty where nothing was running. In which case, a clearer approch might be in rc.local # switch to an unused VT, # so IR remote's silly "keyboard" input doesn't # create login(8) failures in auth.log. chvt 8 I didn't mention it before because I'd rather the actual problem was fixed, but I don't know how to go about that.