Bug 701648

Summary:	firstboot-text.service doesn't honor "console=ttyS0" and instead displays on tty0, preventing serial login
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Laska <jlaska>
Component:	firstboot	Assignee:	Martin Gracik <mgracik>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	15	CC:	bcl, dmach, jturner, mgracik, robatino, tflink
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Whiteboard:	AcceptedBlocker
Fixed In Version:	firstboot-1.119-1.fc15	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description James Laska 2011-05-03 13:20:03 UTC

Description of problem:

After performing a serial console install, firstboot-text.service doesn't honor "console=ttyS0" and instead displays on tty0.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 * firstboot-1.118-1.fc15.x86_64
 * systemd-25-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow steps at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_User_Interface_serial_console
2. Make sure to perform a @default package installation (using VNC may be required to select more packages)
3. Complete install, and boot system (ensuring that console=ttyS0 is a boot arg)
  
Actual results:

firstboot-text starts on tty0, and ttyS0 (serial console) hangs waiting for firstboot to complete.

Expected results:

firstboot-text should honor the console= kernel argument, and display over the serial console when booting with "console=ttyS0"

Additional info:
 # I believe this is related to the fix for bug#696320
 # cat /proc/cmdline
ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_test1247-lv_root netroot=iscsi:@10.10.9.219::3260::iqn.1986-03.com.ibm.25166155.20070201123353.qe-rtt-i386-disk1 iscsi_initiator=iqn.rhel5.i386 ip=eth0:dhcp ifname=eth0:52:54:00:f0:b9:a2 rd_LVM_LV=vg_test1247/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_test1247/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us console=ttyS0

 # Impacts the following Fedora 15 beta release criteria (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Beta_Release_Criteria)

   "When booting a system installed without a graphical environment, or when using a correct configuration setting to cause an installed system to boot in non-graphical mode, the system should provide a working login prompt without any unintended user intervention when boot is complete, and all virtual consoles intended to provide a working login prompt should do so "

Comment 1 James Laska 2011-05-03 13:42:02 UTC

Actually, this impacts the Alpha release criteria [1]

    "When booting a system installed without a graphical environment, or when using a correct configuration setting to cause an installed system to boot in non-graphical mode, the system should boot to a state where it is possible to log in through at least one of the default virtual consoles"

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Alpha_Release_Criteria

Comment 2 James Laska 2011-05-05 11:35:52 UTC

mgracik: I see this fix in firstboot upstream git [1], but I'm not sure if this is also fixed in firstboot-1.118-1.fc15 [2]?  If so, can you modify the proposed update to include this bug#?

[1] http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=firstboot.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/f15-branch
[2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firstboot-1.118-1.fc15

Comment 3 Martin Gracik 2011-05-05 12:50:57 UTC

Fixed in firstboot-1.119-1

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2011-05-05 13:03:38 UTC

firstboot-1.119-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firstboot-1.119-1.fc15

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2011-05-05 21:51:49 UTC

Package firstboot-1.119-1.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing firstboot-1.119-1.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firstboot-1.119-1.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 6 Tim Flink 2011-05-06 17:48:21 UTC

Discussed in the 2011-05-06 blocker review meeting. Accepted as F15 final blocker under the following alpha release criteria [1]:

"When booting a system installed without a graphical environment, or when
using a correct configuration setting to cause an installed system to boot in
non-graphical mode, the system should boot to a state where it is possible to
log in through at least one of the default virtual consoles"

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Alpha_Release_Criteria

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2011-05-10 03:25:25 UTC

firstboot-1.119-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.