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Description of problem: when debugging issues in single-user mode, STDOUT does not appear on console. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 6.0 Beta 1 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot, changing 'rhgb quiet' to 'single' at the grub menu 2. at shell, type 'ifconfig -a' or 'ip link show' -> no output, but shell prompt returned 3. Actual results: output not displayed Expected results: STDOUT to be displayed on console without any need for redirection Additional info: 'ifconfig -a | more' or 'ifconfig -a 1> /dev/console' does show output on console, but 'ifconfig -a > /tmp/file' does not populate /tmp/file. my grub.conf is the one installed by the installer: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_morris-lv_root # initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img #boot=/dev/sdc default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (2.6.32-19.el6.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-19.el6.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_morris-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_morris/lv_root rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-19.el6.i686.img
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http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=initscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=f738fe3f561fbc53f356f10f8f77d5e5f3b86d84 Policy will need modified to label /sbin/sushell appropriately. (Using the same context as /sbin/sulogin works in a quick test, but may have unintended consequences.) Will be in 9.03.11-1.
*** Bug 613803 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you.