Bug 251219
| Summary: | FEAT: RHEL 6.0: Boot-time hang when HPC: 939 | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Jay Greguske <jay.greguske> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | initscripts Maintenance Team <initscripts-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | jeanne.colon-bonet, karen.skweres, rpacheco, rstrode, tom.wildman |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-11-12 16:24:37 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 296431 | ||
Reassigning to initscripts This problem is fixed in the development tree, and will be resolved in the next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat does not currently plan to provide a resolution for this in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux update for currently deployed systems. To get into this situation, you would have to somehow create an image of a system *while RHGB is running* - the pipe in question is only ever created on a temporary ramfs filesystem. This is highly unlikely to happen. With the goal of minimizing risk of change for deployed systems, and in response to customer and partner requirements, Red Hat takes a conservative approach when evaluating changes for inclusion in maintenance updates for currently deployed products. The primary objectives of update releases are to enable new hardware platform support and to resolve critical defects. As a workaround seems to exist for RHEL 5, moving this to RHEL6 and approving. |
Description of problem: The /etc/rc.sysinit script sets RHGB_STARTED=0 but /etc/init.d/functions checks if it's null (""). It caused a problem with headless nodes imaged with SystemImager software to hang on boot trying to open /etc/rhgb/temp/rhgb-console. Removing /etc/rhgb/temp/rhgb-console from the image solved the problem, but the RHGB_STARTED usage should be fixed to be consistent. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. When RHGB is enabled, and it has started, reboot the system. (in the middle of booting) 2. Remove the "rhgb" parameter in the boot loader entry (in grub or lilo), so that the system will not start RHGB. 3. Boot the system. You should see it hang when the first initscript is executed.