Bug 443700

Summary:	shell on VT2 doesn't work in text-mode installs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Will Woods <wwoods>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	ma
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	NeedsRetesting
Fixed In Version:	anaconda-11.4.0.80	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Will Woods 2008-04-22 21:59:02 UTC

If you do a text-mode install with anaconda-11.4.0.73 (F9Preview), there's a
nice '#' prompt on VT2. In graphical installs it's a root shell, but that says
'sh-3.2#'.

Anyway. You can type something at the prompt and hit Enter, but nothing will happen.

I'm not sure how to debug this further without actually having a shell.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2008-04-22 22:09:52 UTC

Pretty sure it was working for me earlier today with a rawhide install -- the
difference in prompts is because in one case, you're getting minstg2.img and the
busybox shell and in the other case, it's bash.  What install method was this with?

Comment 2 Will Woods 2008-04-22 22:22:44 UTC

Figured it was busybox or something. This is with a minstg2.img preupgrade,
using http:// as the fallback method.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2008-04-22 22:51:43 UTC

*** Bug 443265 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2008-04-22 22:54:21 UTC

Reproduced.  Although, ugh, going to be a pain to track down

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2008-04-29 21:15:20 UTC

Should be fixed (switched minstg2.img to just use bash and I've tested that bash
is working in minstg2.img)

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2008-04-30 18:35:42 UTC

Will, can you test this with today's tree?

Comment 7 Will Woods 2008-04-30 20:23:17 UTC

No good - I'm still getting the plain '#' prompt, which probably indicates
busybox instead of bash. And it doesn't work.

Comment 8 Jeremy Katz 2008-05-01 01:41:30 UTC

This is because I'm a moron and didn't add the binary to the file list.  Fixed

Comment 9 Will Woods 2008-05-01 15:25:57 UTC

Works fine with anaconda-11.4.0.80 (rawhide-20080501).