Bug 99564

Summary: Virtual consoles not available while first boot is running.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta Reporter: Nick Marsh <nmarsh1>
Component: firstbootAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
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Version: beta1CC: chris.ricker, mitr, p.van.egdom
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Description Nick Marsh 2003-07-21 21:13:12 UTC
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Description of problem:
Virtual are consoles not available while firstboot is running. Additionally,
typing CTRL + ALT + Backspace won't break the firstboot process (as it did in
earlier versions). This is a problem if your xfree86 config was not setup
properly by anaconda because you can't get to the command line interface to fix it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firstboot-1.1.4-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot into firstboot process (either from fresh install or by rm
/etc/sysconfig/firstboot;chkconfig firstboot on;reboot)
2. Attempt to switch to virtual console (CTRL + ATL + F1-F6) or break X (CTRL +
ATL + Backspace)
    

Actual Results:  Can't access virtual consoles.

Expected Results:  Should be able to access the CLI and fix things if your X
config is hosed.

Additional info:

The only way I was able to even get into X was to pass grub the "single" option
and then remove my /etc/X11/XFree86Config file, run redhat-config-xfree86, and
init 5.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-07-28 19:07:15 UTC
Firstboot runs as a service, hence it runs before /etc/init.d/rc finishes, hence
mingetty will not be running on any VTs.

Comment 2 Nick Marsh 2003-07-28 20:04:25 UTC
Well that sucks.