Bug 758084 - RHEL guest failed to boot into single user mode
Summary: RHEL guest failed to boot into single user mode
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm
Version: 6.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Virtualization Maintenance
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Reported: 2011-11-29 10:40 UTC by Qunfang Zhang
Modified: 2011-12-07 08:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-12-07 08:26:19 UTC
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Description Qunfang Zhang 2011-11-29 10:40:51 UTC
Description of problem:
Boot a rhel6 or rhel5 guest,and then boot into single user mode by "init 1" or add "single" to kernel command line then reboot, guest stops and can not accept any input.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.209.el6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot a RHEL guest.
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M rhel6.2.0 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name rhel6.2-64 -uuid b1af8ea9-8966-fd2a-6567-5ecbde68f116 -rtc base=utc -drive file=/root/RHEL-Server-6.2-64-virtio.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=qcow2,cache=none -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:8c:b4:ec,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -vnc :10 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive file=/home/floppy.img,if=none,id=drive-fdc0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none -global isa-fdc.driveA=drive-fdc0-0-0 -monitor stdio

2.Add "single" to kernel command line.
3.Reboot guest to boot into the single user mode
  
Actual results:
Guest stops at reboot and can not boot into single user mode.

Expected results:
Guest should boot into single user mode.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Qunfang Zhang 2011-12-07 08:26:19 UTC
Test the following 2 scenarios:
(1) Remove "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200" from guest kernel command line, and then boot into single user mode. => Succeed. 
(2) Add "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200" in guest kernel command line and boot into single user mode. Guest stops as bug description, but I can log into guest from the serial.
(Boot guest with serial device "-chardev socket,id=charserial0,path=/tmp/qzhang,server,nowait -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0", using "nc -U /tmp/qzhang to connect the guest.)

Based on above, this is not a bug, close it. Please correct me if I am wrong.


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