Bug#636040: finish-install: hvc0 console added to inittab even when not available
Package: finish-install
Version: 2.32
Severity: normal
finish-install 90console script checks for the existence of
/sys/bus/xen to determine whether to add a console on
/dev/hvc0 - but in 2.6.38 / 2.6.39 this always appears to exist.
The effect is an "init id co respawned too fast, disabling for 5 mins"
message every 5 mins on systems without /dev/hvc0
Adding a check that /dev/hvc0 exists prevents this particular
manifestation, but possibly a more conclusive fix would be required
as the previous block can also create a co console using
/dev/hvc0, but with mode vt100. I don't have a suitable environment
to test what happens under those circimstances.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.8
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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