Auto-Login to console - incorrect TERM settings

[cmitu]

In d33487c#diff-abf7d6e1d74604f159aeaaf38a3f3b3aR962 (when setting auto-login to console), the TERM option passed to agetty are taken from the current user's session - the one that runs raspi-config. This can produce incorrect results for the console auto-login session if raspi-config is executed remotely and the TERM is set to something like xterm-256color.
This produces an autologin.conf containing

ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin pi --noclear %I xterm-256color

instead of

ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin pi --noclear %I $TERM

The console session (via auto-login) should have TERM=linux. I think $TERM should be escaped to \$TERM to avoid the variable substitution.

[dandjo]

Confirming. Replacing xterm-256color with $TERM in /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/autologin.conf solved the problem with strange dialog characters.