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articles/virtual-machines/troubleshooting/serial-console-linux.md

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Pressing **Enter** after the connection banner does not cause a sign-in prompt to be displayed. | For more information, see [Hitting enter does nothing](https://github.com/Microsoft/azserialconsole/blob/master/Known_Issues/Hitting_enter_does_nothing.md). This issue can occur if you're running a custom VM, hardened appliance, or GRUB config that causes Linux to fail to connect to the serial port.
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Pressing **Enter** after the connection banner does not cause a sign-in prompt to be displayed. | GRUB may not be configured correctly. Run the following commands: `grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg` and/or `grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg`. For more information, see [Hitting enter does nothing](https://github.com/Microsoft/azserialconsole/blob/master/Known_Issues/Hitting_enter_does_nothing.md). This issue can occur if you're running a custom VM, hardened appliance, or GRUB config that causes Linux to fail to connect to the serial port.
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Serial console text only takes up a portion of the screen size (often after using a text editor). | Serial consoles do not support negotiating about window size ([RFC 1073](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1073.txt)), which means that there will be no SIGWINCH signal sent to update screen size and the VM will have no knowledge of your terminal's size. Install xterm or a similar utility to provide you with the `resize` command, and then run `resize`.
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Pasting long strings doesn't work. | The serial console limits the length of strings pasted into the terminal to 2048 characters to prevent overloading the serial port bandwidth.
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Erratic keyboard input in SLES BYOS images. Keyboard input is only sporadically recognized. | This is an issue with the Plymouth package. Plymouth should not be run in Azure as you don't need a splash screen and Plymouth interferes with the platform ability to use Serial Console. Remove Plymouth with `sudo zypper remove plymouth` and then reboot. Alternatively, modify the kernel line of your GRUB config by appending `plymouth.enable=0` to the end of the line. You can do this by [editing the boot entry at boot time](https://aka.ms/serialconsolegrub#single-user-mode-in-suse-sles), or by editing the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line in `/etc/default/grub`, rebuilding GRUB with `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg`, and then rebooting.

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