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Bug 874553 - rd.debug boot option doesn't log to /run/initramfs/init.log
Summary: rd.debug boot option doesn't log to /run/initramfs/init.log
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dracut
Version: 18
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: dracut-maint
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: RejectedBlocker
Depends On:
Blocks: fedora19rtt
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-08 12:39 UTC by Jan Stodola
Modified: 2013-05-29 13:45 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-05-29 13:45:51 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jan Stodola 2012-11-08 12:39:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
When booting with rd.debug boot option, dracut should log to /run/initramfs/init.log.

man dracut.cmdline says:
...
rd.debug
    set -x for the dracut shell and logs to dmesg, console and /run/initramfs/init.log
...

With dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18, this logging file doesn't exist at all:
switch_root:/# ls /run/initramfs/
root-fsck  switch-root.conf
switch_root:/# cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora-root ro rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.debug rd.break
switch_root:/#

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. append "rd.debug rd.break" to the kernel command line and boot
2. wait for dracut rescue shell
3. look for /run/initramfs/init.log
  
Actual results:
/run/initramfs/init.log is missing

Expected results:
/run/initramfs/init.log is present and contains debug messages
Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2012-11-29 15:34:43 UTC 
I have a patch for /run/initramfs/sosreport.txt with extended information to attach to a bug report.
Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2012-12-03 17:57:46 UTC 
Discussed at 2012-12-03 blocker review meeting: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-qa/2012-12-03/f18final-blocker-review-1.2.2012-12-03-17.25.log.txt . Rejected as a blocker: this doesn't obviously hit any of the release criteria, and no particular justification was provided here or in the meeting beyond 'it makes debugging dracut a pain' - which is a shame, but doesn't obviously seem to be a release blocking issue.
Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2013-05-29 13:45:51 UTC 
fixed with F19
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