Public bug reported:
Release: Ubuntu 9.04/Jaunty
Arch: x86_64
Packages:
python-vm-builder: 0.10-0ubuntu2
debootstrap: 1.0.12
console-setup: 1.28ubuntu8
upstart: 0.3.9-8
Running vmbuilder on a text console to build a kvm based VM causes
gettys to stop respawning. Each getty needs to be restarted using
'initctl start tty#' where # is the tty number. Some existing getty's
seem to accept login but then try and respawn themselves after login if
the login is successful before the user has logged out.
I suspect that this may not actually be a vmbuilder bug, but may be
related to vmbuilder's use of debootstrap (and in turn interactions with
upstart), and the setup of getty's within the vm image causing issues
with the text console.
Notes:
The version of Ubuntu that I am installing in the vm image is 9.04/Jaunty.
I don't have X on this machine. Will test further with another machine (once
again x86_64) that has X to see if I can replicate it when run from a shell
while running X (eg: Xterm).
Using vmbuilder --debug I have narrowed it down to somewhere around the
install of console-setup, but I am not 100% sure of this.
During the build process, the text console font changes at almost the same
time that the getty's stop respawning, which seems to coincide with the
configuration of the console-setup package by debootstrap.
The command 'initctl events' shows no events being sent to respawn the gettys
on logout, as compared to what usually happens prior to building the vm image
using vmbuilder, or after manually restarting them.
The vmbuilder process is being spawned using sudo (directly or using a shell
created with 'sudo -i'), which in turn is being spawned by the initial user
created at install time of the host system.
While test config files and command lines are available on request, I
have been able to produce this with minimal vm builds using vmbuilder
(eg: 'vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --part=test.part' and a simple partition file
containing root & swap only).
If you have any test commands that I can try (eg: directly calling
debootstrap the way vmbuilder does to isolate it to debootstrap, or even
a way to reinstall individual packages in an image using chroot to try
and replicate it), just let me know.
** Affects: vm-builder (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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building vm image on text console causes gettys to stop respawning
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392377
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