<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Red Hat Linux 7.1 and SysVinit</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Remote Serial Console HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Bugs and annoyances" HREF="bugs.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Flow control in Linux kernel" HREF="bugs-kernelp.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="BIOSs, keyboards and video cards" HREF="bugs-video.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECTION" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Remote Serial Console HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="bugs-kernelp.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Appendix A. Bugs and annoyances</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="bugs-video.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECTION" ><H1 CLASS="SECTION" ><A NAME="BUGS-RHL71" ></A >A.2. <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >Red Hat <SPAN CLASS="SYSTEMITEM" >Linux</SPAN ></SPAN > <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNUMBER" >7.1</SPAN > and SysVinit</H1 ><P >The System V <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >init</SPAN > system shipped with <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >Red Hat Linux</SPAN > <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNUMBER" >7.1</SPAN > does not support serial console correctly in single user mode. See Red Hat advisory <I CLASS="CITETITLE" ><SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >RHBA-2001:085-02</SPAN > <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-085.html" TARGET="_top" ><I CLASS="CITETITLE" >New SysVinit package to fix hangs on serial console</I ></A ></I >. The advisory announces an update to the package <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >SysVinit-2.78-15.i386.rpm</TT > that is shipped on the <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >Red Hat Linux</SPAN > <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNUMBER" >7.1</SPAN > <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >CD</SPAN >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="bugs-kernelp.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="bugs-video.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Flow control in <SPAN CLASS="SYSTEMITEM" >Linux</SPAN > kernel</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="bugs.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >BIOS</SPAN >s, keyboards and video cards</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >