Bug 13650 - Emergency console not useable via ttyS0
Summary: Emergency console not useable via ttyS0
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 4
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Colin Guthrie
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Reported: 2014-07-02 17:46 CEST by Marc Krämer
Modified: 2015-10-27 06:58 CET (History)
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Source RPM: systemd-208-10.5.mga4.src.rpm
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Description Marc Krämer 2014-07-02 17:46:14 CEST
If boot of a system leads you to emergency console, e.g. due to a inactive mount point in fstab, the system repeatable states
"Welcome to emerg" and you don't get any prompt.


Moreover inexistent devices lead to dracut console, which should only be the case on essential device components (/, /usr/lib, /etc, /root)

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Comment 1 David Walser 2014-07-02 18:44:05 CEST
(In reply to M K from comment #0)
> Moreover inexistent devices lead to dracut console, which should only be the
> case on essential device components (/, /usr/lib, /etc, /root)

This is a different issue than the other thing you mentioned, but it's very true, and it's a very serious bug.  I ran into this twice this past weekend, once after I had deleted the swap partition so that I could resize it (diskdrake forced me to reboot before completing the operation).  The other was after a fresh Mageia 4 installation, rebooting into the installed system with the USB HDD from which I installed (using boot.iso to bootstrap the installation) no longer plugged into the system.  In each case, all that was needed was to regenerate the initrd, but there's no reason it should be dropping to the unhelpful dracut shell in either case.

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Comment 2 Samuel Verschelde 2015-09-21 13:21:41 CEST
Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to 
fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later 
Mageia version.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we weren't 
able to fix it before Mageia 4's end of life. If you are able to reproduce it 
against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click on "Version" and 
change it against that version of Mageia. If it's valid in several versions, 
select the highest and add MGAxTOO in whiteboard for each other valid release.
Example: it's valid in cauldron and Mageia 5, set to cauldron and add MGA5TOO.

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Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2015-10-27 06:58:40 CET
As announced over a month ago, Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates.

This issue may have been fixed in a later Mageia release, so, if you still see it and didn't already do so: please upgrade to Mageia 5 (or, if you read this much later than this is written: make sure you run a currently maintained Mageia version)

If you are able to reproduce it against a maintained version of Mageia, you are encouraged to 
1. reopen this bug report, by changing the "Status" from "RESOLVED - OLD" to "REOPENED"
2. click on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia. If you know it's valid in several versions, select the highest and add MGAxTOO in whiteboard for each other valid release.
Example: it's valid in cauldron and Mageia 5, set to cauldron and add MGA5TOO.
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If you would like to help fixing bugs in the future, don't hesitate to join the
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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD


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