461910 – sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.45 linuxrc does not support /bin/bash as real_init

Bug 461910 - sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.45 linuxrc does not support /bin/bash as real_init

Summary: sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.45 linuxrc does not support /bin/bash as real_init

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	genkernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers

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Reported:	2013-03-16 09:23 UTC by Łukasz Stelmach
Modified:	2015-08-20 16:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Łukasz Stelmach 2013-03-16 09:23:23 UTC

The linuxrc script from genkernel does not support launching /bin/bash as real init (after switching root). This is due to the double quotes around INIT_OPTS

exec /sbin/switch_root -c "/dev/console" "${CHROOT}" "${REAL_INIT:-/sbin/init}" "${INIT_OPTS}"


With INIT_OPTS empty bash gets one empty string as an argument and exits with the following error message

/bin/bash: : No such file or directory

which in this case causes kernel panic.

Comment 1 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) gentoo-dev

2015-08-20 16:06:43 UTC

fixed with https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444574