Bug#620491: [PATCH] setupcon always fails on boot - readonly /tmp

[Jindřich Makovička <makovick@gmail.com>]

2011/4/2 Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 11:57:06AM +0200, Jindřich Makovička wrote:
>>
>> Currently, setupcon always fails during early booting, because it
>> tries to create a temporary file in /tmp, which is still read-only.
>> The attached patch modifies it so it tries both /tmp and /lib/init/rw
>> as a temporary directory.
>
> Thanks, I didn't know /lib/init/rw can be used.
>
> I think usually setupcon will not fail because in /etc/init.d/console-setup
> it is used with --save option.  The next time the machine reboots there
> will be no need to create a temporary file in /tmp.

This is related to init.d/keyboard-setup, and the "Setting preliminary
keymap ... failed" message is displayed on every boot.

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka