Bug 471007

Summary:	Plymouthd blocks keyboard if rescue booting with init=/bin/bash
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Milan Broz <mbroz>
Component:	plymouth	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	krh, pvrabec, rstrode, wwoods
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Description Milan Broz 2008-11-11 11:17:53 UTC

Description of problem:

If you change GRUB prompt to replace init with the shell
(almost standard rescue procedure when everything fails)

plymouthd blocks keyboard output - no chars (or only something) is shown
in the prompt.

Anyway, is still accepts input, so if you are able to kill plymouthd and reset terminal, it works again.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

rawhide, plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.10.30.4.fc10.i386
(encrypted PV, if it has some impact)

How reproducible:
- remove "rhgb quiet" from GRUB parameters and replace with init=/bin/bash
- try to write something when bash shell appears. press enter.

Expected results:
Working rescue shell only. Note that I do not want boot into single user, I need run shell here instead of init (imagine init is broken, udev is broken, etc)

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-11-11 15:14:04 UTC

building a fix for this now

plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.11.11.1

Comment 2 Will Woods 2008-11-15 21:27:16 UTC

This fixed is in current Rawhide plymouth. Please retest and confirm the fix (or reopen the bug if it doesn't work as expected).