#167 Issue `closed`: Shell prompt doesn't load from ISO¶

Labels: support / question

begbert opened issue at 2012-10-16 15:39:¶

OS: Fedora 16 x64

When booting into the rescue mode from a CD it finishes loading with "* * * Rescue System is ready * * *" with a blinking cursor after it. Hitting enter creates a new line and things can be typed in but no commands are accepted and the shell prompt never appears. The only error on the screen is:
Running 40-start-udev-or-load-modules.sh
error binding udev control socket
Waiting for udev ... done.

/etc/rear/local.conf

# Create ReaR rescue media as ISO image
OUTPUT=ISO

# optionally set your backup software
BACKUP=REQUESTRESTORE

Log is here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1283286/

gdha commented at 2012-10-17 08:01:¶

Did a quick test on a Fedora 15 image and I also saw the message "error binding udev control socket", but I did got a login prompt and a working rescue image.

begbert commented at 2012-10-19 18:36:¶

I just setup a virtual machine running fresh Fedora 16 x64 with a minimal install and default partition layout. I installed rear's prereqs and syslinux and 1.14 from (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Archiving:/Backup:/Rear/Fedora_16/noarch/), ran a mkrescue with requestrestore, copied it to my desktop, burned it and tried running it on a bare metal machine. Had the same issue.

Seems to be reproducible.

jhoekx commented at 2012-10-20 07:54:¶

I had the same problem in Arch using systemd BTW, so it's something with our initialization scripts. I did not have the time to investigate further yet. What worked was going to the second console ALT-F2 and do the restore from there.

gdha commented at 2012-11-17 14:56:¶

will try it myself beginning of next week - found a vm with f16 on it.

gdha commented at 2012-11-19 10:12:¶

I confirm that on F16 the fixes of Jeroen doesn't break systemd, but on the contrary they work very well.
@jhoekx Thanks a lot.

PS: tested it on OpenSuse 12 too 👍 works fine (only systemd-udev complains, but that is normal as it is only available in f18-beta)

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#167 Issue closed: Shell prompt doesn't load from ISO¶