Bug#352301: Hang after selinux messages on SunFire v240

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

Hi,

The selinux mounting message comes from the on-disk /sbin/init (sysvinit 
package), so switching to real root is successful. Looking at the sysvinit 
syslog I see the following suspicious entry dating Feb 9th:

sysvinit (2.86.ds1-12) unstable; urgency=low
[..]
  * init: 41_selinux_console.dpatch: print to same console as others do
    (Closes: #349149)
[..]

That patch changes the function to print the informational selinux
message from printf() to print(), which opens the console, writes to it, 
and then closes it. I'm not sure about the rationale of this change, but 
it looks like the primary suspect. Can you try building the sysvinit 
package without this patch and try it? If you want to do it during 
installation, you'll have to wget the package, chroot into /target
and install it there.

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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