Re: Bug#226986: sysvinit: no output on headless sparc64
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:44:20, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> Package: sysvinit
> Version: 2.85-9
> Severity: normal
>
>
> This is a headless sparc64 system.
> After init is executed,
> there is nothing in the console; the last message is
> about mounting the root filesystem readonly.
> It seems that the system completely hangs.
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro -p console=ttyS0
> It may be relevant that I see every kernel message twice
> on the console (but once in dmesg)
> after and including the following message:
> Console: ttyS0 (SU)
>
> The workaround is to set
> #define INITDEBUG 1
> in init.h , and recompile.
>
> I do not claim that I understand why this solution works,
> but it does.
> I am interested in figuring out what the actual problem is,
> and find a solution to it. I need hypotheses to test and
> questions asked well (or the answer, if you have it:).
I bet if you turn off bootlogd in /etc/default/bootlogd (or
upgrade to a more recent version of sysvinit/initscripts
where this is the default) that the problem will disappear.
Bootlogd doesn't work on all systems, that's why it has been
turned off in newer versions for now.
Mike.
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