Description of problem: When booting with rd.debug boot option, dracut should log to /run/initramfs/init.log. man dracut.cmdline says: ... rd.debug set -x for the dracut shell and logs to dmesg, console and /run/initramfs/init.log ... With dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18, this logging file doesn't exist at all: switch_root:/# ls /run/initramfs/ root-fsck switch-root.conf switch_root:/# cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora-root ro rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.debug rd.break switch_root:/# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. append "rd.debug rd.break" to the kernel command line and boot 2. wait for dracut rescue shell 3. look for /run/initramfs/init.log Actual results: /run/initramfs/init.log is missing Expected results: /run/initramfs/init.log is present and contains debug messages
I have a patch for /run/initramfs/sosreport.txt with extended information to attach to a bug report.
Discussed at 2012-12-03 blocker review meeting: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-qa/2012-12-03/f18final-blocker-review-1.2.2012-12-03-17.25.log.txt . Rejected as a blocker: this doesn't obviously hit any of the release criteria, and no particular justification was provided here or in the meeting beyond 'it makes debugging dracut a pain' - which is a shame, but doesn't obviously seem to be a release blocking issue.
fixed with F19