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On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 21:59 -0500, Robert Paskowitz wrote: |
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> On boot, /sbin/rc would check for /sbin/livecd-functions.sh, and if it |
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> exists, source it, which has the effect of cleaning up the inittab. |
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It wasn't working, which was the reason for making the change. The |
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problem is that inittab spawns the gettys before it even finished |
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sourcing livecd-functions.sh and modifying inittab, so we were getting |
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login prompts with a scrambled password. |
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> Besides the new behaviour not being the desired action, whenever it |
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> isn't the desired action, the user will not get any useable TTYs, since |
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> they all try to launch bashlogin, and since baselayout was not built |
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> with 'livecd', the bashlogin script is not on the system. |
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Not rebuilding baselayout with livecd in USE is not supported, nor will |
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it be. |
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> Would it be possible to have this change reverted, since |
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> livecd-functions.sh in baselayout already seems to take care of it? |
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No, for the reasons stated above. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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