Bug 696333 - login prompt doesn't show inserted characters
Summary: login prompt doesn't show inserted characters
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: initscripts
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: initscripts Maintenance Team
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Depends On: 589888
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-13 20:37 UTC by James M. Leddy
Modified: 2018-11-14 13:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 589888
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-04-26 20:36:53 UTC
Target Upstream Version:


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Comment 2 James M. Leddy 2011-04-13 20:43:01 UTC
bug 586040, was closed with a fix in initscripts. It looks like we have regressed in 9.03.22-1.el6.x86_64, which is in the 6.1 beta.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2011-04-13 21:47:12 UTC
CCing plymouth maintainer. If you ssh in, is plymouth running at this time?

Comment 5 James M. Leddy 2011-04-14 19:12:21 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> CCing plymouth maintainer. If you ssh in, is plymouth running at this time?

Yes. is that normal?

I'm not certain this is the same issue, one point of difference is it looks like mingetty was started in the badly toggled state <echo off> and then toggled it for echo on for password, and then retoggled off, which is not the exact same as what customer is seeing. Also, they are rhgb off where the other bug only happens with rhgb.

customer tried plymouth:debug at the kernel command line but they did not see any /var/log/plymouth-debug.log

Specific behavior is:

1) boot up
2) login: root <-this behaves normally
3) password: password <- this is echoed when it should not be
4) every character must preceded by a return character to be registered. Any character not preceded by a return character is thrown out, so for example, directory listing is 

<ENTER>l<ENTER>s<ENTER><ENTER>

The enter enter being the return (the return has to be preceded by the return character :) Since everything else is thrown away, it could also be done as:

<ENTER>larry<ENTER>sanders<ENTER><ENTER>

I did not file this as a bug in mingetty because I don't think mingetty was rebased in 6.1

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2011-04-14 20:36:42 UTC
If you ssh in and run 'plymouth quit', does it behave?

Comment 8 James M. Leddy 2011-04-21 19:28:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> If you ssh in and run 'plymouth quit', does it behave?

Everything starts working again, except your password still gets echoed upon login.

Comment 9 Ray Strode [halfline] 2011-04-26 20:26:37 UTC
so it sounds like "plymouth quit" either isn't getting called during start up, or it's getting called but ignored by plymouthd.

- can you put plymouth:debug on the kernel command line and post /var/log/plymouth/plymouth-debug.log after doing your manual plymouth quit call?

- what's the output of

rpm -qV initscripts 

- is selinux enabled and enforcing? does booting with enforcing=0 make a difference?

- I assume this is booting to runlevel 3 by default?

Comment 10 James M. Leddy 2011-04-26 20:36:53 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> so it sounds like "plymouth quit" either isn't getting called during start up,
> or it's getting called but ignored by plymouthd.
> 
> - can you put plymouth:debug on the kernel command line and post
> /var/log/plymouth/plymouth-debug.log after doing your manual plymouth quit
> call?
> 
> - what's the output of
> 
> rpm -qV initscripts 
> 
> - is selinux enabled and enforcing? does booting with enforcing=0 make a
> difference?
> 
> - I assume this is booting to runlevel 3 by default?

Ray,

Thanks for your help. The customer mucked with some of the init script files. That was causing plymouth not to exit properly.


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