[Fedora-xen] Re: Console Hang On Boot Using 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5xenU

[Robin Bowes]

Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 05:15:56PM -0600, Mike Freemon wrote:
>>> Was there any responses on this email from 10/17?  I'm seeing the same 
>>> problem on my system:
>> I posted a reply to the same problem reported in another thread - I mised
>> this thread originally. The solution is to install new kudzu in the DomU 
>> from updates-testing. This new kudzu ensures that the agetty process gets
>> spawned on the xvc0 console as well as the paravirt framebuffer.

What version is this? I don't see any upgrades available for kudzu on
updates-testing:

# rpm -q kudzu
kudzu-1.2.34.5-1

# yum --enablerepo=updates-testing upgrade kudzu
...
Could not find update match for kudzu
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

> If you're like me and run non-Redhat guests under FC5 + redhat xen kernels
> you'll have to do it maunally:
> 
> /etc/inittab: (assuming you're using getty and not already using 'co'
> in your inittab)
> 
> co:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 xvc0
> 
> and add xvc0 to /etc/securetty so you can login as root on the console.

/etc/inittab contains:

# Run gettys in standard runlevels
co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty xvc0 9600 vt100-nav

xvc0 is in /etc/securetty

I see this in the console:
Starting HAL daemon: [  OK  ]
INIT: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
INIT: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

Ah, this looks like an SELinux issue:

# audit2allow -i /var/log/audit/audit.log  -l
allow getty_t device_t:chr_file getattr;

This fixes it:
chcon --reference=/dev/tty0 /dev/xvc0

or

chcon -t tty_device_t /dev/xvc0

R.