This is what happened before this patch (edited for brevity):
dracut-cmdline-ask.service in modules.d/98dracut-systemd, which invokes
dracut-cmdline-ask.sh. This script and systemd-vconsole-setup are
started in parallel for the same console (tty1).
Then dracut-cmdline-ask quits immediately without doing anything (unless
rd.cmdline=ask is given). As this is a bash script and it gets tty as
stdin as specified in its *.service, this triggers the hangup of tty1 at
its exit.
Meanwhile systemd-vconsole-setup continues and tries some ioctls after
that, but they fail because of the hung up tty1.
The usual culprit for starting systemd-vconsole-setup early on is
plymouth-start.service, even if plymouth.enable=0 is set.
A popular (and annoying) symptom of this as reported by users was
the inability use their configured keyboard layout in plymouth when
unlocking their crypted block devices.
Reference: boo#1055834
Basic systemd functionality is in 00systemd now.
Switching root and the initrd.target is in 00systemd-initrd.
Dracut additions to the systemd initrd are in 98dracut-systemd.
This mimicks the similar move of os-release which was done in systemd. These
files are not configuration, but part of the OS.
Still symlinks are in place for compatibility, but those should probably be
dropped eventually.
Currently when action_on_fail is enabled, the emergency_shell won't be called.
In kdump even though user specify the default action as emergency_shell,
dracut skip it. Now change the implementation of action_on_fail to depend
on a file which is created by kdump when making kdump initrd, then remove it
at the beginning of kdump. This can solve the explicit emergency_shell problem.
And action_on_fail won't need paramenters, remove the relevant description in
dracut man page.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Daniel Molkentin