No output in Arch Linux initcpio after 1.6.6
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hi,
here are two screenshots : no change with the additional parameters (I used /dev/urandom instead of /dev/zero).
the tests are here done with qemu but the operation is identical with a
real machine.
qemu -kernel archkernel -initrd myinitcpio.pv.1.6.20
qemu -kernel archkernel -initrd myinitcpio.pv.1.6.6
regards, lacsaP.
Le lun. 31 janv. 2022 à 23:32, Andrew Wood a écrit :
Hello, thanks for your email.
Do you know what happens if you use "-f" with pv in this case?
Also does "-L 500" make any difference?
Wondering if either terminal detection or rate of output changes the
outcome.Sent from: lacsaP
hi,
have a look here : https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73393
regards, lacsaP.
hi,
a small remark on this subject:
the use of pv is done very early in the initrd and /dev/stderr is not available at that time (archlinux).
I realized this in one of my scripts that did not display in the console the error message sent to /dev/stderr (the file /dev/stderr was created instead, so no error was reported).
on the other hand, the redirection to fd#2 works.
# uname -r
5.10.83-1-lts
# echo test >/dev/stderr #KO
# cat /dev/stderr
test
# echo test >&2 #OK
test
regards, lacsaP.
hi,
archlinux has reintroduced /dev/stderr and the problem persists with the latest versions of pv.
a change introduced after version 1.6.6 is probably at the origin of this strange behavior... (because version 1.6.20 works perfectly in the final system).
regards, lacsaP.
A fix for this has been suggested, and has been merged in. It will be in the next release.
thanks a lot