Bug 124513 – strange behaviour when switching from runlevel 3 to 1 and vice-versa

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description teknux 2006-03-01 04:32:47 UTC]

very similiar to this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95876

when switch from runlevel 3 to 1 or form 1 to 3 I get a login prompt but if I press [enter] i get a shell. this all happens to all the other vt/n.

this behaviour doesn't happen with other distros (tried on ubuntu and slackware) as it should be. it seems the problem is some rc script of baselayout.

STEP TO REPRODUCE:
1) # telinit 1
2) watch what happens
3) # telinit 3
4) watch what happens

regards,
tek

here's emerge --info output (tried also on other gentoo machines with 2005.1):
Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.11-gs-r                                                                  9-custom2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gs-r9-custom2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -fpic -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X1                                                                  1/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -fpic -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscal                                                                  i.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
LANG="it_IT"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apm audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt curl eds                                                                   emboss encode ethereal expat foomaticdb geoip gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk2 i                                                                  dn imlib jpeg lcms libg++ libwww menubar mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses ogg ope                                                                  ngl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png python quicktime readline samba sse sse2 ssl tc                                                                  pd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userla                                                                  nd_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-10-17 13:02:39 UTC]

*** Bug 151689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 defterserfi 2006-10-27 05:46:43 UTC]

This problem still lingers in 2006.1, is anyone working for a resolution?
I think it's not just a matter of baselayout, it also applies to sysvinit. 
Both sulogin and agetty are trying to acquire tty1 at telinit 1, so maybe sulogin in /sbin/rc should only be called when user is NOT at tty1? Or, agetty should not be forked for tty1 at runlevel 1?

[Comment 3 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2006-12-12 03:21:30 UTC]

This should be fixed in baselayout-1.13.0_alpha9