Bug#499030: debian-installer: [s390] installer fails to boot 'attempt to kill init'

2008-09-20 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 04:11:12PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 19 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: With the new rootskel I get an endless repetition of: steal-ctty: No such file or directory Running with set-x gives a bit more info: + -f /var/run/console-device ! + cat

Bug#499030: debian-installer: [s390] installer fails to boot 'attempt to kill init'

2008-09-20 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Jérémy, On Saturday 20 September 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: [...] Indeed. Could you look at kernel messages for anything related to the console? Using dmesg -s 65535 | grep console should probably do the trick. [...] Looks like you did not read my other messages related to this BR.

Bug#499030: debian-installer: [s390] installer fails to boot 'attempt to kill init'

2008-09-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I know that Jérémy uploaded a changed version of rootskel yesterday, so this needs re-testing with that, but I wanted to register the issue anyway. With the new rootskel I get an endless repetition of: steal-ctty: No such file or directory -- To

Bug#499030: debian-installer: [s390] installer fails to boot 'attempt to kill init'

2008-09-19 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 499030 rootskel 1.68 thanks On Friday 19 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: With the new rootskel I get an endless repetition of: steal-ctty: No such file or directory Running with set-x gives a bit more info: + -f /var/run/console-device ! + cat /var/run/console-device + exec

Bug#499030: debian-installer: [s390] installer fails to boot 'attempt to kill init'

2008-09-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 19 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: There seem to be various issues: - trying /dev/ttyS0 is just plain wrong for s/390: /dev/ttyS0 does not exist, which explains the error from steal-ccty Reason ttyS0 is tried is that dmesg does mention it: console [ttyS0] enabled But udev

Bug#499030: debian-installer: [s390] installer fails to boot 'attempt to kill init'

2008-09-19 Thread Frans Pop
tags 499030 pending thanks On Friday 19 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: As the installer should just be using /dev/console in my case, the solution seems to be to add a check that the console device actually exists in reopen-console (and probably log a warning if it does not). I've committed