Bug 626523

Summary:	/dev/hvc0 created on boot
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	13	CC:	harald, jonathan, rvokal
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Description Bill Nottingham 2010-08-23 18:19:29 UTC

Description of problem:

Normal boot of a laptop (i.e., not a virt guest, or anything else.)

$ ls -l /dev/hvc*
crw-r--r--. 1 root root 229, 0 Aug 23 08:15 /dev/hvc0

$ cat /dev/hvc0
cat: /dev/hvc0: No such device or address

$ udevadm info --query all --name=hvc0
device node not found

Not sure where it's coming from. Starting with udev, may get moved elsewhere.

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

udev-153-2.fc13.x86_64
dracut-005-3.fc13.noarch
kernel-2.6.35.1-6.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2010-08-23 18:28:42 UTC

$ grep hvc0 $(rpm -ql dracut)
/usr/share/dracut/modules.d/50plymouth/plymouth-pretrigger.sh:    [ -c /dev/hvc0 ] || mknod /dev/hvc0 c 229 0

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-09-23 15:32:05 UTC

dracut-005-4.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-005-4.fc13

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-09-23 15:33:26 UTC

dracut-005-4.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-005-4.fc12

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-09-24 20:39:09 UTC

dracut-005-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dracut'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-005-4.fc12

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-10-27 22:54:02 UTC

dracut-005-5.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-10-30 23:38:38 UTC

dracut-005-5.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.