FS#35750 - [syslinux] serial console support seems broken

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Monday, 10 June 2013, 23:28 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 22:01 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Seems like serial console no longer works with 5.10. The menu doesn't display, but after the timeout it uses the default option to boot from. Downgrading to 5.01 and rewriting the bootloader restores the expected behavior.

/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg attached.
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 22:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  5.11-pre1
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 05:08 GMT
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Assigned)
  • Field changed: Category (Packages: Core → Upstream Bugs)
Yes, is broken. I detected it while testing for archiso, I missed reporting this to upstream. I paid more attention to the issue of PXE problem, thanks to remind this. At least this happens to me in qemu-1.5.0. Do you test on the same "hardware"?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 05:14 GMT
Also please test with old qemu, qemu-1.5.0 is a bit buggy.
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 12:43 GMT
> Yes, is broken. I detected it while testing for archiso, I missed reporting this to upstream. I paid more attention to the issue of PXE problem, thanks to remind this.
I don't really understand this. I was aware of the PXE problems, but extlinux hasn't been affected until now. I've been using 5.01 happily on my VMs since it hit [testing].

> Do you test on the same "hardware"?
I've not changed the configuration of any of my VMs -- I'm using a launcher script which ensures that: https://github.com/falconindy/bin-scripts/blob/master/qinit

> Also please test with old qemu, qemu-1.5.0 is a bit buggy.
I've had zero problems with qemu-1.5.0. qemu-1.4.1 with syslinux 5.10 shows the exact same problem (no menu). Really, this needs bisecting in syslinux.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 13:23 GMT
Looks looks my english is bad. Let me say in other words...

Yes, this is also broken for me in 5.10, while 5.01 (and 5.02-preX) works good. I hit this issue due testing archiso with new syslinux-5.10 using qemu-1.5.0. If you look at git-log of syslinux you can see some fixed around serial-console code.
When I question about hardware is about if you run on the same "hardware" as me (qemu), not if you made some updates/changes to your hardware.

What I tried to say was, that I forgot to report the problem to the serial console, because I gave a lot more importance to the problem with PXE, as I was waiting since 5.02-preX for another version to see if it improved. (but of course this is totally unrelated to this report)
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 13:40 GMT
> Looks looks my english is bad. Let me say in other words...
I think we both misunderstood. No worries, all makes sense now. Do you have a link to the upstream bug report/ML post?
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 15:30 GMT
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-June/020125.html
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 13 June 2013, 15:41 GMT
Fixed in 5.11-pre1. Also PXE issue is fixed, I need to do more test to see if no regressions. Looks like next syslinux version can finally moved out of [testing] ;)
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 05 July 2013, 05:32 GMT
Should be fixed in 6.01-1
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 15:56 GMT
Gerardo can I close this?

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