Bug 471123 - Unable to get single-user mode shell when booting with 'linux 1'
Summary: Unable to get single-user mode shell when booting with 'linux 1'
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: initscripts
Version: 10
Hardware: powerpc
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 483031 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-11 21:32 UTC by James Laska
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:16 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-11-18 19:29:07 UTC
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Description James Laska 2008-11-11 21:32:36 UTC
Description of problem:

Booting an installed F10 system while appending the kernel argument '1' does not drop the user into a shell on a serial console accessible system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.11.10.5.fc10

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F10
2. Reboot installed system while appending kernel argument '1'
  
Actual results (with plymouth:debug plymouth:nolog):

command line: ro console=hvc0 rhgb quiet root=UUID=681eac51-2a58-4be3-aeb0-2acd0be4ade2 1 plymouth:debug plymouth:nolog
memory layout at init:
  alloc_bottom : 0000000002ae8000
  alloc_top    : 0000000008000000
  alloc_top_hi : 00000001f0000000
  rmo_top      : 0000000008000000
  ram_top      : 00000001f0000000
Looking for displays
found display   : /pci@800000020000004/pci@2,2/pci@1/display@0, opening ... done
instantiating rtas at 0x00000000076a1000 ... done
boot cpu hw idx 0000000000000000
starting cpu hw idx 0000000000000002... done
copying OF device tree ...
Building dt strings...
Building dt structure...
Device tree strings 0x0000000002be9000 -> 0x0000000002bea4db
Device tree struct  0x0000000002beb000 -> 0x0000000002c00000
Calling quiesce ...
returning from prom_init
Phyp-dump not supported on this hardware
[main.c]                                 check_logging:checking if console messages should be redirected and logged
[main.c]                                 check_logging:logging should be enabled!
[main.c]                            check_for_consoles:checking if splash screen should be disabled
[main.c]                            check_for_consoles:serial console found!
[main.c]                                 create_window:creating window on hvc0
[main.c]                redirect_standard_io_to_device:redirecting stdio to hvc0
[main.c]                        initialize_environment:initialized minimal work environment
[main.c]                     attach_to_running_session:creating new terminal session
[main.c]                                          main:entering event loop
[ply-boot-server.c]                ply_boot_connection_on_request:got show splash request
[ply-window.c]                               ply_window_open:trying to open window '/dev/hvc0'
[ply-window.c]                               ply_window_open:could not open /dev/hvc0 : No such file or directory
[main.c]                               has_open_window:checking for open windows
[main.c]                                on_show_splash:no open windows, detaching session
[ply-terminal-session.c]                   ply_terminal_session_detach:stopping terminal logger
[main.c]           plymouth_should_show_default_splash:checking if plymouth should be running
[main.c]                          show_detailed_splash:Showing detailed splash screen
[main.c]                             start_boot_splash:Loading boot splash plugin '/usr/lib/plymouth/details.so'
[./plugin.c]                                 create_plugin:creating plugin
[main.c]                             start_boot_splash:attaching plugin to event loop
[main.c]                             start_boot_splash:attaching progress to plugin
[main.c]                             start_boot_splash:adding windows to boot splash
[main.c]                    add_windows_to_boot_splash:There are 1 windows in list
[main.c]                             start_boot_splash:showing plugin
[ply-boot-splash.c]                          ply_boot_splash_show:showing splash screen

[main.c]                                    on_newroot:new root mounted at "/sysroot", switching to it
		Welcome to Fedora 
		Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Starting udev: [  OK  ]
[main.c]                                     on_update:updating status to 'RCkernelparam'
[./plugin.c]                                 update_status:status update
[main.c]                                     on_update:updating status to 'RChostname'
[./plugin.c]                                 update_status:status update
Setting hostname ibm-sf2b-lp1.test.redhat.com:  [  OK  ]
Setting up Logical Volume Management:   2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
init: rc1 post-stop process (1794) terminated with status 1


Expected results:

A shell

Additional info:

# echo $TERM ; tty
vt100-nav
/dev/hvc0

* Booting with 'linux single' works as expected

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2008-11-12 00:53:17 UTC
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=initscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=0320082b72105bb90863d43b3051623381cde73a should, theoretically, fix it for you.

Comment 2 James Laska 2008-11-12 15:27:13 UTC
Applying the suggested change to my rawhide installed system (initscripts-8.85-1.ppc) makes the following work:

* boot with 'linux 1'

Telling INIT to go to single user mode.
[root@ibm-sf2b-lp1 /]# cat  /proc/cmdline 
ro console=hvc0 rhgb quiet root=UUID=4b84fcc2-7c0d-4447-b0a7-7ab4676a18cd 1

* boot with 'linux single'

Enabling local filesystem quotas:  [  OK  ]
Enabling /etc/fstab swaps:  [  OK  ]
[root@ibm-sf2b-lp1 /]# cat /proc/cmdline 
ro console=hvc0 rhgb quiet root=UUID=4b84fcc2-7c0d-4447-b0a7-7ab4676a18cd single

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 05:13:04 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2009-01-29 18:01:48 UTC
*** Bug 483031 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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