Re: Sparc d-i terminal weirdness?
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 November 2008, Mike Grice wrote:
>> Ok, I got a little further. I started running the wrapper scripts the
>> same way init calls them (via reopen-console). The first part of the
>> installer, /sbin/debian-installer-startup, works fine. When I run the
>> second part, /sbin/debian-installer itself, things break.
>>
>> I'm not sure where, but its hard to recreate the exact environment (as
>> its called via reopen-console). I'll have to do some digging, maybe I
>> can write a bunch of similar scripts just using the contents of
>> reopen-console with the sourcing part included.
>
> OK, that makes sense. reopen-console is a recent addition in D-I, but is
> required to support both real terminals and e.g. serial console. It is
> very much possible that it lacks support for certain architectures,
> especially for special use-cases like virtual machines.
>
> I suggest that you open a BR at severity important against rootskel (the
> D-I component that includes reopen-console) with your current analysis
> and follow-up to that with anything further you discover.
I've done that now (504721). I'll poke more into the debug output if
I get time tomorrow.
> reopen-console itself is just a shell script, so it can be debugged by
> adding a 'set -x' during the early BOOT_DEBUG shells.
Thanks again,
Mike.
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