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Bug 1291907 - mangled config in /etc/sysconfig/init
Summary: mangled config in /etc/sysconfig/init
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: initscripts
Version: 6.7
Hardware: s390x
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
: 6.7
Assignee: Lukáš Nykrýn
QA Contact: Leos Pol
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-15 20:52 UTC by Neal Kim
Modified: 2019-09-12 09:34 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: initscripts-9.03.50-1.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-05-11 01:07:47 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2016:0951 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE initscripts bug fix and enhancement update 2016-05-10 22:56:20 UTC

Description Neal Kim 2015-12-15 20:52:25 UTC 
Description of problem:

Mangled config in /etc/sysconfig/init.

Looks like this:

 # Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup...
 PROMPT=yes
 # Set to 'yes' to allow probing for devices with swap signatures
# Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup...
PROMPT=no

Should look like this:

# Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup...
PROMPT=yes
# Set to 'yes' to allow probing for devices with swap signatures
AUTOSWAP=no


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

initscripts-9.03.49-1.el6.s390x.rpm


How reproducible:

Always.


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open /etc/sysconfig/init
2. Observe mangled config


Actual results:

Mangled config.

 # Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup...
 PROMPT=yes
 # Set to 'yes' to allow probing for devices with swap signatures
# Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup...
PROMPT=no


Expected results:

# Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup...
PROMPT=yes
# Set to 'yes' to allow probing for devices with swap signatures
AUTOSWAP=no


Additional info:

Interestingly enough the mangled config only appears in the s390x and PPC variants of RHEL 6. It looks like the config was mangled starting in RHEL 6.6.
Comment 1 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-12-16 09:08:15 UTC 
The shipped configuration files  looks fine. Maybe something is changing them? Lets try anaconda.
Comment 2 David Cantrell 2015-12-17 16:39:46 UTC 
anaconda does not modify /etc/sysconfig/init
Comment 3 Neal Kim 2015-12-18 17:43:52 UTC 
Just FYI. If you extract the init script via rpm2cpio etc... you will see that the config is mangled right off the bat. Only the s390x and PPC variants as mentioned in the description.


Cheers,
Comment 4 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-12-25 10:20:24 UTC 
Sorry my bad. This was broken by this commit https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/initscripts.git/commit/?id=7e7ab260

So yep, lets fix it.
Comment 5 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-01-05 15:35:06 UTC 
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/initscripts.git/commit/?h=rhel6-branch
Comment 7 Leos Pol 2016-02-16 10:54:30 UTC 
initscripts-9.03.49-1.el6 for s390 & s390x /etc/sysconfig/init contains
...
 # Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup...
 PROMPT=yes
 # Set to 'yes' to allow probing for devices with swap signatures
# Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup...
PROMPT=no
...

initscripts-9.03.50-1.el6 for s390 & s390x /etc/sysconfig/init contains
...
# Set to anything other than 'no' to allow hotkey interactive startup...
PROMPT=no
...

Other archs have different source and are not affected by this change.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-11 01:07:47 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0951.html
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