Bug 22361 - initscripts-9.78 or systemd-236 doesn't let mandrake_everytime update /etc/issue, so TTYs show wrong kernel version (and nothing about kernel version at all in recent cauldron installs)
Summary: initscripts-9.78 or systemd-236 doesn't let mandrake_everytime update /etc/is...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
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Reported: 2018-01-09 14:41 CET by Marja Van Waes
Modified: 2019-03-07 06:33 CET (History)
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Source RPM: initscripts-9.78-5.mga7, systemd-236-3.mga7
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Description Marja Van Waes 2018-01-09 14:41:55 CET 
In each of ZQqmy cauldrons, the kernel version that is shown above the login prompt in a TTY, is the version that was used when I updated initscripts on that system from version 9.55-27 to 9.78

uname -r shows the correct, current version.

I went from 9.55-27 to 9.78-4 in two cauldrons, from 9.55-27 to 9.78-5 in another and don't know whether the issue already existed in the three previous 9.78 releases.

(Thanks to David Walser for explaining where the information above the prompt comes from)
Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2018-01-10 09:03:41 CET 
On the cauldron that I use for production, and where I updated initscripts and systemd rather late, the time stamp of /etc/issue matches:

jan 07 20:07:14 localhost kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1515352034.858:41): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=mandriva-everytime comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'

It is confusing to have a unit mandriva-everytime, while it's /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime

Anyway, it seems systemd could be the culprit, instead of initscripts.

There's nothing about a mandriva-everytime unit in my logs for more recent boots

Source RPM: initscripts-9.78-5.mga7 => initscripts-9.78-5.mga7, systemd-236-3.mga7
Summary: initscripts-9.78 doesn't let mandrake_everytime update /etc/issue, so TTYs show wrong kernel version => initscripts-9.78 or systemd-236 doesn't let mandrake_everytime update /etc/issue, so TTYs show wrong kernel version

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2018-01-10 11:51:04 CET 
I wish I'd understand this part from /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime :

=========================================================================

# /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net stuff

[ -f /etc/sysconfig/system ] && source /etc/sysconfig/system
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/msec ] && source /etc/sysconfig/msec
[ -z "$SECURE_LEVEL" ] && SECURE_LEVEL=3
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/init ] && source /etc/sysconfig/init
if [ $SECURE_LEVEL -lt 4 ]; then
    [ -z "$REWRITEISSUE" ] && REWRITEISSUE=rewrite
    if [ $SECURE_LEVEL -lt 3 ]; then
        [ -z "$REWRITEISSUENET" ] && REWRITEISSUENET=rewrite
    fi
fi

========================================================================

Anyway, echo $SECURE_LEVEL returns nothing here, only echo $SECURITY returns something:

[root@localhost marja]# echo $SECURITY
3
[root@localhost marja]# echo $SECURE_LEVEL

[root@localhost marja]#
Comment 3 Ben McMonagle 2018-01-25 08:56:04 CET 
just to advise same here

tty2 displays: kernel 4.14.10-desktop-1.mga7 on a x86_64 / tty2

"rpm -qa | sort | grep ^kernel" returns:

kernel-desktop-4.14.13-1.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-4.14.14-1.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-4.14.14-2.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-4.14.15-1.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-devel-4.14.13-1.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-devel-4.14.14-1.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-devel-4.14.14-2.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-devel-4.14.15-1.mga7-1-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-devel-latest-4.14.15-1.mga7
kernel-desktop-latest-4.14.15-1.mga7
kernel-firmware-20170531-1.mga6
kernel-firmware-nonfree-20171220-1.mga7.nonfree
kernel-userspace-headers-4.14.15-1.mga7


mageia welcome displays: kernel 4.14.15-desktop-1.mga7

CC: (none) => westel

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2018-06-05 07:39:40 CEST 
Note that there is no message about kernel version at all in recent cauldron installs. The /etc/issue file doesn't exist.

Summary: initscripts-9.78 or systemd-236 doesn't let mandrake_everytime update /etc/issue, so TTYs show wrong kernel version => initscripts-9.78 or systemd-236 doesn't let mandrake_everytime update /etc/issue, so TTYs show wrong kernel version (and nothing about kernel version at all in recent cauldron installs)

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2019-03-07 06:33:36 CET 
This got fixed some time ago. Thanks to whoever fixed it!

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