Bug 326

Summary:	Booting messages on two virtual consoles
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	MichaÅ Walenciak <Kicer86>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=131562
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	mkinitrd	CVE:
Status comment:

Description MichaÅ Walenciak 2011-03-10 13:20:40 CET

Description of problem:

For couple of months I have such problem:
after booting my pc, I see some kernel messages. Then current console stops displaying any new ones.
Most of the rest init messages are going to another console (if I press alt+right arrow I see them). 

The problem started in mandriva and i was hoping it will dissapear in mageia ;)

So if I don't switch to another console I don't see ie messages:
1. Press 'I' to enter interactive mode
2. FSCK for disks
3. Most Deamons startup statuses

However some of the messages still appear in 1. console but it happens too fast to find any rules

Additional info:
I use kernel and grub compiled by myself, but AFAIR it was the same with mandriva's ones.

How reproducible:
Every time I boot my pc

Steps to Reproduce:
Boot linux in the verbose mode (no graphical "loader" with progresbar)

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Ahmad Samir 2011-03-23 00:34:48 CET

Here's a hack, edit /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd and add this line to it:
chmod a-x /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-populate-initrd

save the file then recreate the initrd of your kernel.

mkinitrd sources this file before creating the initrd of any kernel, so this will ensure /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-populate-initrd is not executable; mkinitrd checks the execute permissions bit of that file, and if not executable mkinitrd won't include plymouth stuff in the initrd. (the tip about /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-populate-initrd is from fcrozat, a long time ago).

Comment 2 MichaÅ Walenciak 2011-03-24 08:23:21 CET

yeah works, thx

Manuel Hiebel 2011-07-27 18:23:05 CEST

Source RPM: (none) => mkinitrd

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-05 17:51:13 CEST

@ Michal

Was the problem still there in Mageia 1 rc and Mageia 1, in other words: did you need Ahmad's/fcrozat's hack again?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 4 MichaÅ Walenciak 2011-10-08 07:47:34 CEST

i've edited this file as Ahmad said. I did not do anything else since that time.
/etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd still has this "chmod a-x ..." line

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-08 08:44:17 CEST

@ Michal

Thanks for the feedback.

Closing this bug as "worksforme"

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
URL: (none) => http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=131562
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME