Ubuntu
upstart package

Typing Exit at Emergency Root Term does Nothing

Bug #62189 reported by Stu Hood
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
upstart (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Scott James Remnant (Canonical)

Bug Description

When you start up the non-graphical emergency root terminal, it tells you you can type exit to 'leave' the terminal (it might say reboot, I didn't read carefully) but if you do type exit, it only prints the message again and brings you back to the prompt.

I would expect it to reboot the system with 'shutdown -r now' or something.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

This is because it runs rc-default, which detects that "single" is on the kernel command-line, so thus respawns the shell.

gah

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

(Note: it's supposed to continue booting the system normally)

Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)
Changed in upstart:
importance: Untriaged → Medium
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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

Fixed in 0.2.7-4

Changed in upstart:
assignee: nobody → keybuk
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Stu Hood (stuhood) wrote :

Thanks a lot for all of your upstart work. We'll all be very proud if a few other distributions pick it up as well, but even if they don't: Ubuntu will have the best around.

And thanks for fixing this one ;)

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