Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:44:39 +0100 Roderich Schupp <roderich.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools-core > Version: 0.121 > Severity: critical > > boot with an initrd generated by initramfs-tools-core 1.21 > fails with "run-init: opening console: No such file or directory" > (see attached screenshot) > > It seems to be caused by validate_init() in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init > which has been reduced to just "run-init -n ..." using the new option -n to > klibc's run-init. The latter bombs out in > > if ((confd = open(console, O_RDWR)) < 0) > return "opening console"; > > Dunny why, as sticking "ls -l /dev/console" into /usr/share/initramfs- > tools/init > right before "run-init -n ..." shows that /dev/console exists... [...]
That's showing you the /dev/console in the initramfs. However, run-
init will open it from the 'real' root filesystem.
At the recovery shell prompt, what does "ls -l /root/dev/console" show?
Ben.
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