[1196] in testers
weird installation behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Nov 27 12:35:48 1990
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 12:35:14 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "Barr3y Jaspan"'s message of Tue, 27 Nov 90 12:02:10 -0500 <9011271702.AA11282@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 12:02:10 -0500
From: "Barr3y Jaspan" <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Sender: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I got the toehold prompt back, which I thought wasn't supposed to
happen. So I logged in as root again just to poke around, and in the
middle of "more /etc/ttys" everything froze, an X server started up,
and the new login appeared.
Odd.
Not odd at all. If you read the install-test shell script, you will
see that it puts a job in the background before exiting that sleeps
for 30 seconds and then sends a signal to init to tell it to restart.
This is meant to give you time to log out before init restarts.
If you'd waited a little longer before logging in again as root,
toehold would have gone away and the new login would have started up,
when init was reset. Instead, you logged in, and the reset happened
while you were logged in, this freezing your login session.
jik
