{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/documentation/issues/819","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/documentation","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/documentation/issues/819/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/documentation/issues/819/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/documentation/issues/819/events","html_url":"https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/issues/819","id":295706720,"number":819,"title":"Raspbian Stretch Lite could use a warning about its nonfunctional serial console","user":{"login":"marshallpierce","id":575695,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/575695?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/marshallpierce","html_url":"https://github.com/marshallpierce","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marshallpierce/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marshallpierce/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marshallpierce/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marshallpierce/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marshallpierce/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marshallpierce/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marshallpierce/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marshallpierce/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marshallpierce/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":9,"created_at":"2018-02-08T23:49:09Z","updated_at":"2018-02-09T14:01:00Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"NONE","body":"https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ makes no mention of the fact that the serial console doesn't work out of the box on a RPi 3, and that you need to do the config.txt shenanigans in https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-5-using-a-console-cable/enabling-serial-console to get it working.\r\n\r\nBetter still, the .img could ship in a functioning state by default... As a new user of Raspbian (but not linux), this was pretty surprising: a distro that has a preconfigured user, but literally no way to log in as that user by default. Is this actually a desirable state for some arcane reason I'm not seeing?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/documentation/issues/comments/364441277","html_url":"https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/issues/819#issuecomment-364441277","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/documentation/issues/819","id":364441277,"user":{"login":"lurch","id":476186,"avatar_url":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/476186?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/lurch","html_url":"https://github.com/lurch","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lurch/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lurch/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lurch/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lurch/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lurch/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lurch/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lurch/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lurch/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lurch/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-02-09T14:01:00Z","updated_at":"2018-02-09T14:01:00Z","author_association":"COLLABORATOR","body":"> All I wanted to do was enable ssh so I could then forget about being physically proximal to the hardware.\r\n\r\nAh, so I guess you must have missed the Option 3 on https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/ssh/README.md then? ;-)\r\n\r\n> Eventually I give up searching and go ask in IRC, where someone connects the dots and explains the UART boot config situation.\r\n\r\nThere's also https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/uart.md which didn't seem _too_ hard to find?"}}
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