Bug 547498
| Summary: | booting with serial console requires keyboard input to proceed | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jeff Layton <jlayton> | ||||
| Component: | qemu | Assignee: | Justin M. Forbes <jforbes> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 12 | CC: | amit.shah, berrange, clalance, crobinso, dwmw2, ehabkost, gcosta, itamar, jaswinder, jforbes, knoel, markmc, ondrejj, scottt.tw, steved, veillard, virt-maint | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Triaged | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2010-12-04 01:40:00 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 514891 | ||||||
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A few more details... I never see kernel messages need input to proceed. For instance, once it's booted, I can do this in the guest: # echo ? > /proc/sysrq-trigger and see the help message pop up on the console. I think that probably means that this is actually a problem within the guest -- maybe with upstart? I'm not sure who to assign that to however, and I'm also not clear on why I've only ever seen this on KVM guests. Nothing new to say on this issue, other than it is definitely not a libvirt issue. I know the qemu char device code can stall boot sometimes if the type gets full, but not sure if its the same issue. Reassigning to qemu. This message is a reminder that Fedora 12 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 12. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '12'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 12's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 12 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |
Created attachment 378322 [details] strace of "virsh console" session during boot of rawhide guest I'm having an intermittent problem with KVM guests, however I'm not certain that it's actually a libvirt problem. I could use some guidance on how to narrow down the culprit. Please reassign if you think this is more appropriately assigned elsewhere. Occasionally, I'll reboot one and then notice some time later that it's not up. I'll then pull up the serial console and hit return a few times, and see a few boot messages pop up. The boot will then stall until I hit return some more. In order to get the thing completely booted, I usually have to hold down the return key. It doesn't happen on every boot of a guest and I'm not sure what triggers it, but it obviously isn't good for KVM guests not to reboot reliably. Any thoughts on how to determine the cause? I've only seen this occur in kvm guests. Attached is a snippet of strace of a "virsh console" session during a rawhide guest boot. It clearly shows that the poll never gets any output from the pty until we've written to it.