[redhat-lspp] newrole doesn't work on serial consoles

[George Wilson]

redhat-lspp-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 02/12/2007 08:55:48:

> On Friday I filed this bugzilla because at least on my ia64 box, newrole
> hangs when run on a serial console.  Might also hang a regular serial
> port but I'm not sure.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228102
>
> The short summary is that on my system, newrole is hanging in the
> open when its
> trying to relabel the tty.  It will also hang when it reopens
stdin,stdout and
> stderr.  If I change the opens to have the O_NONBLOCK flag, it works.  I
don't
> know if that's the right solution though.  I assume what I'm seeing on my
> serial console has something to do with the way the agetty has configured
the
> port.
>
> George, are you seeing the same thing?

I haven't tried a proper serial console in a while.  Will definitely give
it a shot.  It does not hang on the virtual serial console of my ppc64
partition.

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Thanks,
George Wilson
IBM LTC Security Development
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