Bug 12247

Summary:	No tty's are available in the installer - 4RC
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	claire robinson <eeeemail>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	dvgevers, ennael1, mageia, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	4RC
Source RPM:	kernel	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:	12241
Bug Blocks:

Description claire robinson 2014-01-08 18:51:04 CET

Classic 4RC DVD 32 4th round

No tty's are available in the installer other than tty7 where the gui is running.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

claire robinson 2014-01-08 18:51:22 CET

CC: (none) => ennael1
Whiteboard: (none) => 4RC

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-08 22:51:27 CET

side effect of using dracut in stage1?

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 2 Colin Guthrie 2014-01-09 10:43:55 CET

Can you be a little clearer about what you mean? Do you just mean during stage1? Or when the installer proper kicks in. I've happily been using tty's 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. to debug and log things since dracut switch.

I suspect perhaps it's a problem with the latest kernel as it also doesn't boot on my machine (bare metal) and we had a similar regression in VirtualBox with an older kernel where you could not switch to the TTYs. Thomas WDYT?

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 3 claire robinson 2014-01-09 10:55:52 CET

Noticed in stage 2 but didnt check stage 1 so it may be the same. Confirmed by dvg.

Comment 4 Colin Guthrie 2014-01-09 11:21:58 CET

Still don't think it's related to anything other than kernel. Is it only the latest ISOs you're noticing this? If it was working in previous iterations, it's the only thing that could affect it.

Comment 5 claire robinson 2014-01-09 11:32:11 CET

It's hard to say Colin its not something we really check for. This is valid in the current build though, build 4.

Comment 6 Dick Gevers 2014-01-09 11:49:37 CET

AFAIK we missed tty's only in the 4th round prerelease iso's !

CC: (none) => dvgevers

Comment 7 Colin Guthrie 2014-01-09 11:53:04 CET

(In reply to Dick Gevers from comment #6)
> AFAIK we missed tty's only in the 4th round prerelease iso's !

Yeah I definitely used them when looking into the unconfigured network issue for sure, so I suspect a kernel issue.

Comment 8 Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-09 12:05:43 CET

Probably related to the big regression (bug #12241)

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Depends on: (none) => 12241
Assignee: thierry.vignaud => tmb
Source RPM: (none) => kernel

Comment 9 Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-13 07:11:40 CET

Presumed fixed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 10 claire robinson 2014-01-13 07:38:09 CET

Yes, fixed in latest isos so must have been the previous kernel issue.