About upstart problem in live-initramfs-1.118-2 (Was: A problem in live-initramfs-1.110.7)

[steven at nchc.org.tw (Steven Shiau)]

Daniel,
This bug still exists in live-initramfs-1.118.2.
The substitution in /scripts/live-bottom/25configure_init will cause
created ubuntu live won't be able to login automatically in the console.
In a normal upstart, /dev/event.d/tty1 is like:
---------------
...
respawn
exec /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
---------------
Therefore the substitution for respawn in 25configure_init in
live-initramfs-1.118-2 is:
sed -i -e "s|^respawn.*|respawn /bin/login -f ${USERNAME}
</dev/$(basename ${f}) > /dev/$(basename ${f}) 2>\&1|" ${f}

It should be modified as:
sed -i -e "s|^exec.*|exec /bin/login -f ${USERNAME} </dev/$(basename
${f}) > /dev/$(basename ${f}) 2>\&1|" ${f}

Hope this can be fixed in the future release.
Thanks in advance.

Steven.

Steven Shiau wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to use live helper with Ubuntu. I found there is a problem in
> the file /scripts/live-bottom/25configure_init from live-initramfs-1.110.7.
> 
> In a normal Ubuntu system (Ex 7.10 or 8.04 alpha3), the
> /etc/event.d/tty1 is like:
> ---------------
> ...
> respawn
> exec /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
> ---------------
> 
> However, in the  file /scripts/live-bottom/25configure_init from
> live-initramfs-1.110.7.
> --------------------
> ...
>                         then
>                                 for f in /root/etc/event.d/tty*
>                                 do
>                                         sed -i -e "s|^respawn.*|respawn
> /bin/login -f ${USERNAME} </dev/$(basename ${f}) > /dev/$(basename ${f})
> 2>\&1|" ${f}
>                                 done
>                         fi
> --------------------
> IMHO,  the substitute for respawn should be exec, i.e.
> sed -i -e "s|^respawn.*|respawn /bin/login -f ${USERNAME}
> </dev/$(basename ${f}) > /dev/$(basename ${f}) 2>\&1|" ${f}
> should be modified as:
> sed -i -e "s|^exec.*|exec /bin/login -f ${USERNAME} </dev/$(basename
> ${f}) > /dev/$(basename ${f}) 2>\&1|" ${f}
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Steven.


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