Description of problem: The recent errata kernel to FC5 added support for the Xen paravirtual framebuffer driver. Previously the default console that mingetty login prompt was started on was the serial console (/dev/xvc0), so no special handling was required. When the framebuffer driver now in the kernel by default, the serial console no longer gets a mingetty process setup on it - they're attached to the framebuffer instead. So, when upgrading, user's existing login console for their guests simply 'disappear', unless they know to use VNC to connect to the framebuffer instead. Newer kudzu from FC6 will auto-detect the paravirt fb from xen and add an entry into /etc/inittab to spawn agetty on /dev/xvc0. We need a new kudzu release to push this same capability to FC5 users. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kudzu-1.2.34.4-1 kernel-xenU-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 xen-3.0.3-1.fc5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade to latest kernel-xenU in a guest 2. Reboot guest 3. Run 'xm console foo' Actual results: No login prompt Expected results: Standard console login prompt Additional info:
I installed 1.2.34.5-1 in the guest, rebooted & it correctly updated the inittab & I got a login prompt, so this looks like a good patch to push for updates-testing
kudzu-1.2.34.5-1 has been pushed for fc5, which should resolve this issue. If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.