Bug 585053

Summary:	STDOUT does not work with many commands in single-user mode
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Norman <norman.lyon>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	initscripts Maintenance Team <initscripts-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Yulia Kopkova <ykopkova>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.0	CC:	dwalsh, lsof, notting, ykopkova
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	initscripts-9.03.11-1.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Clones:	614088 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-11-10 20:40:09 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	614088

Description Norman 2010-04-23 01:37:06 UTC

Description of problem:
when debugging issues in single-user mode, STDOUT does not appear on console.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 6.0 Beta 1

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot, changing 'rhgb quiet' to 'single' at the grub menu
2. at shell, type 'ifconfig -a' or 'ip link show' -> no output, but shell prompt returned
3.
  
Actual results:
output not displayed

Expected results:
STDOUT to be displayed on console without any need for redirection

Additional info:
'ifconfig -a | more' or 'ifconfig -a 1> /dev/console' does show output on console, but 'ifconfig -a > /tmp/file' does not populate /tmp/file.

my grub.conf is the one installed by the installer:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_morris-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sdc
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (2.6.32-19.el6.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-19.el6.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_morris-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_morris/lv_root rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-19.el6.i686.img

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-04-23 02:54:14 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2010-06-29 17:01:33 UTC

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=initscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=f738fe3f561fbc53f356f10f8f77d5e5f3b86d84

Policy will need modified to label /sbin/sushell appropriately. (Using the same
context as /sbin/sulogin works in a quick test, but may have unintended
consequences.)

Will be in 9.03.11-1.

Comment 9 Bill Nottingham 2010-07-13 16:32:03 UTC

*** Bug 613803 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-10 20:40:09 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.