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Bug 1272686 - systemd-vconsole-setup.service always fails if no VGA console
Summary: systemd-vconsole-setup.service always fails if no VGA console
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: systemd
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: AcceptedBlocker
: 1272684 1434619 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: F26FinalBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-17 15:49 UTC by Dusty Mabe
Modified: 2018-02-16 04:09 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

Fixed In Version: systemd-233-4.fc26
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-06-17 19:43:39 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Virtual Machine Image Definition (4.06 KB, text/plain)
2016-02-12 16:39 UTC, Dusty Mabe 		no flags Details
/etc/vconsole.conf (28 bytes, text/plain)
2016-02-12 16:40 UTC, Dusty Mabe 		no flags Details
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Description Dusty Mabe 2015-10-17 15:49:00 UTC 
Description of problem:

If I don't have a VGA device attached to a VM then systemd-vconsole-setup.service always fails on startup. The /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service file has ConditionPathExists=/dev/tty0 but those devices seem to be getting created so it's not sufficient to stop the unit from running.

NOTE: Sometimes the failure is masked by having plymouth installed (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1272684) 

NOTE: There is an upstream discussion somewhat related to this issue at http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030051.html


Some example output from debug loglevel systemd:


```
[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | grep vconsole | grep code
[    5.730456] systemd-vconsole-setup[165]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with error code 71.
[    5.788474] systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
[    5.796741] systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
[    5.920884] systemd-vconsole-setup[211]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with error code 71.
[    5.981822] systemd-udevd[196]: Process '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup' failed with exit code 1.
[    6.243578] systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
[   12.490275] systemd-vconsole-setup[429]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with error code 71.
[   12.549108] systemd-udevd[355]: Process '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup' failed with exit code 1.
```




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F23 - systemd-222-7.fc23.x86_64
Rawhide - systemd-227-1.fc24.x86_64



How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
Option 1: Use the reproducers in BZ#1272684

Option 2: For rawhide boot  https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/538/11490538/Fedora-Cloud-Base-rawhide-20151017.x86_64.qcow2

Option 3: For F23 boot http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/23_TC11/Cloud_Images/x86_64/Images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-23_TC11-20151016.x86_64.qcow2
Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2016-02-12 14:34:44 UTC 
Why does /dev/tty0 exist then, if there is no VGA device attached?
What is it?
Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2016-02-12 14:36:04 UTC 
What is the contents of /etc/vconsole.conf?
Comment 3 Dusty Mabe 2016-02-12 16:36:34 UTC 
As far as I know there is no VGA device attached to the VM. Will add contents of the libvirt xml file soon.
Comment 4 Dusty Mabe 2016-02-12 16:39:15 UTC 
Created attachment 1123575 [details]
Virtual Machine Image Definition
Comment 5 Dusty Mabe 2016-02-12 16:40:06 UTC 
Created attachment 1123577 [details]
/etc/vconsole.conf
Comment 6 Dusty Mabe 2016-02-15 23:00:57 UTC 
Do you need any help setting up a reproducer. Or any more information about this?
Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2016-11-24 12:49:35 UTC 
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Comment 9 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-05-25 00:53:51 UTC 
*** Bug 1434619 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-05-25 00:55:08 UTC 
Transfering tags from 1434619.
Comment 11 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-05-25 03:10:35 UTC 
*** Bug 1272684 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-05-25 03:30:52 UTC 
It's not trivial to reproduce... qemu-kvm -nographic is not enough, but https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1123575 with https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/26/Fedora-26-20170316.0/compose/CloudImages/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-26_Alpha-1.1.x86_64.qcow2 works when imported into libvirt.

Upstream PR: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6029.
Comment 13 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-05-25 12:22:24 UTC 
Dropping PrioritezBlocker as per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434619#c8.
Comment 14 Adam Williamson 2017-06-14 18:49:58 UTC 
Ping: the PR has been merged upstream, could you backport it to F26 now, to resolve this Final blocker bug? Thanks!
Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2017-06-15 23:36:49 UTC 
systemd-233-4.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-4c3c543d2e
Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2017-06-16 22:24:56 UTC 
systemd-233-4.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-4c3c543d2e
Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2017-06-17 19:43:39 UTC 
systemd-233-4.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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