[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#668523: sysvinit: Returning from single user leaves current tty disfunctional

[Ruediger Otte]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-22.1
Severity: normal

In newer releases sysvinit leaves the current tty with a hang init and appending
shell, when doing for example a "init 2" in runlevel 1. Killing the shell process
with "kill -9 pid" returns the tty to normal operation. As workaround it is also
possible to logout of the shell immediately at runlevel change with "init 2 && exit".

Nonetheless this trick wasn't neccessary in sysvinit releases until Squeeze, so there
has to be a recent change in sysvinit or initscripts that is causing this behavior.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  debianutils     4.2.1
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-22.1
ii  libc6           2.13-27
ii  libselinux1     2.1.9-2
ii  libsepol1       2.1.4-2
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-22.1
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-22.1

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

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