From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: When kudzu is run (with -s -q options) for the first time (when /etc/sysconfig/hwconf does not exist yet), and a line containing "mgetty" and "ttyS" is commented out in the /etc/inittab file, kudzu will attempt to uncomment that line and end up corrupting the /etc/inittab file. Here is an example. If the /etc/inittab file has the following line in it before kudzu is run #S0:23457:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 9600 -r ttyS0 kudzu will attempt to uncomment that line and end up writing the following lines in the new /etc/inittab: S0:23457:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 9600 -r ttyS0 ^@ 9600 vt100 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.99.42.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remove /etc/sysconfig/hwconf 2. Add the following line to /etc/inittab: #S0:23457:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 9600 -r ttyS0 3. Run kudzu -s -q Actual Results: The following lines were produced in /etc/inittab: S0:23457:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 9600 -r ttyS0 ^@ 9600 vt100 Expected Results: Ideally, the line that was commented out should not have been changed. If the line must be changed, it should have remained the same - but without the "#". Additional info: This happens on ia32 and ia64 when using this version of kudzu.
Is the machine booted via serial console?
No, the machine is not booted over a serial console.
Apologies for the slow response. At this point, Red Hat does not currently plan to provide a resolution for this in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 update for currently deployed systems. With the goal of minimizing risk of change for deployed systems, and in response to customer and partner requirements, Red Hat takes a conservative approach when evaluating changes for inclusion in maintenance updates for currently deployed products. The primary objectives of update releases are to enable new hardware platform support and to resolve critical defects. This issue may be fixed in RHEL 3/RHEL 4; the code has changed in that area.