Bug 506706 - mkinitrd:daemonize --ignore-missing /bin/plymouthd in init script silences console
Summary: mkinitrd:daemonize --ignore-missing /bin/plymouthd in init script silences co...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-18 12:46 UTC by Stefan Assmann
Modified: 2009-06-22 14:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-06-22 14:26:47 UTC
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Description Stefan Assmann 2009-06-18 12:46:44 UTC
Description of problem:
While I tried to boot F11 without an initrd and couldn't get that to work I tried to boot a custom kernel with the default initrd of my system and noticed the following:

part of the init script from initrd:
mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64
mknod /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65
mknod /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66
mknod /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67
daemonize --ignore-missing /bin/plymouthd
echo "Loading output module"
modprobe -q output
echo "Loading video module"

everything that gets echoed after the daemonize --ignore-missing /bin/plymouthd command won't appear on the console. There's no message Loading output module or Loading video module displayed for example. By putting some more echo's in there I figured that this is caused by the daemonize command. I replaced daemonize --ignore-missing /bin/plymouthd with /bin/plymouthd and afterwards all ongoing messages will be displayed again.

Now I can guess what daemonize is supposed to do however maybe someone could clarify why this is needed and what is the host for this program. I couldn't find it in the initrd. :)

Sorry I'm not that familiar with the whole initrd stuff on Fedora yet. TIA!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mkinitrd-6.0.86-2.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. check log during boot and see that for example "Loading <yourmodule> module" is not displayed.

Actual results:
lot of boot messages are missing

Expected results:
boot messages are displayed on console

Additional info:

Comment 1 Peter Jones 2009-06-22 14:26:47 UTC
This is the expected behavior of that command; it redirects to /var/log/boot.log .  Hitting escape after this should bring it back to the console as well.


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