Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 57147
/etc/issue no longer reports kernel/hardware info
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; AIX 4.3) Description of problem: I have installed RedHat 7.1 on two systems. 1 install was from CD on a Xeon and the other was a network kickstart on a Pentium III. After installation both systems had incorrect /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net files. /etc/issue contained 3 lines (last line 0 length):- Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) Kernel \r on an \m /etc/issue.net contained 2 lines:- Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) Kernel \r on an \m Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RedHat 7.2 2. 3. Expected Results: On Redhat 7.1 Pentium III systems at this site /etc/issue contains (2 zero-length lines):- Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686 /etc/issue.net contains (1 zero length line at start of file):- Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686 Additional info:
These are correct. If you're not seeing the system info when you login, you need to update your util-linux and/or telnet-server packages. You did do a full update to 7.2, right?
This was a full install with (in the case of the kickstart install) clearpart --linux The following packages were installed:- util-linux-2.11f-9 telnet-server-0.17-20 Regards....Tim
And you're still seeing the literal \r and \m at login time?
I don't see anything wrong at login time. The only problem I see is when I cat the /etc/issue file. With Redhat7.1 and earlier I used the contents of this file to pop up a message during the install. It is not critical, just unexpected. How is the substitution performed at login time? Regards....Tim
getty, telnetd perform the substitution.
I figured out the substitution (mingetty). I guess I can substitute uname calls in my script. Does /etc/issue still report the number of processors? I haven't had time to try installing SMP yet. Regards...Tim