Bug 12698

Summary:	can't suspend/stop bootstrap script to get prompt
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Zach Welch (RETIRED) <zwelch>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Zach Welch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-25 15:41:40 UTC

I just brought up a new system with the very latest (12/23/2002) livecd iso
image, but I only used the stage1 image to install into a chrooted partition 
from a RedHat 7.2 system (which will soon be wiped).

I started bootstrap script early and wanted to cancel.  Hitting Ctrl-Z 
stopped the underlying processes, but the main bootstrap script was still R in 
the process list.  The other tasks all showed T, and kill -STOP of the 
bootstrap script (from another console) finally gave me the bash prompt back.  

Continuing is just a simply fg, but this took several tries to get the scripts 
stopped in the first place.  In the meantime, the outward appearance is that 
the script has hung; you can't get a prompt.  This behavior was trivially
reproducible for me.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-01-14 19:48:08 UTC

This is now fixed on cvs and will show up on rsync within the hour. we were
trapping the TSTP signal which was what was causing the problem. ^Z et all work
with the new script now. This bit me too! :)