[systemd-devel] How to make debug-shell more usable?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 26.02.15 20:22, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:

> 2015-02-26 1:12 GMT+01:00 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl>:
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 01:04:55AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> 2015-02-26 0:55 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>:
> >> > To reproduce the problem, add e.g. a non-existing device to /etc/fstab
> >> >
> >> > The "Waiting for device to show up ..." messages are printed all over tty9.
> > We made rescue.service conflict with emergency.service for similar
> > reasons some time ago. We could do something similar here. OTOH,
> > killing debug-shell.service to start emergency.service does not seem
> > useful. So maybe we could hardcode not starting emergency.service in case
> > debug-shell.service is already running.
> 
> Hm, I think it's fine to start emergency.service, but it should be
> started on a defined tty, not simply the current active one.

No. /dev/console is the only right thing this early in the boot, since
it might point to anything, including serial ports, all depending on
kernel cmdline params. Hardcoding a VT is not an option.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat