If we run in a container we shouldn't patch around this, and most likely
we can't anyway, and there's not much point in complaining about this.
Hence let's strictly say: the agent is private property of the host's
system instance, nothing else.
The way this is used drifted a bit from the original intent. Let's update
the description and add some examples to inspire people to texts that look
less bad during initial boot.
Ideally, coccinelle would strip unnecessary braces too. But I do not see any
option in coccinelle for this, so instead, I edited the patch text using
search&replace to remove the braces. Unfortunately this is not fully automatic,
in particular it didn't deal well with if-else-if-else blocks and ifdefs, so
there is an increased likelikehood be some bugs in such spots.
I also removed part of the patch that coccinelle generated for udev, where we
returns -1 for failure. This should be fixed independently.
Kernel 4.19 supports deferred console takeover [0], i.e., fbcon will
take over the console only when the first text is displayed on the
console. Before that event, only the dummy console is active. Our
currently udev rules call systemd-vconsole on every vtcon except for
dummy consoles. Thus the exception for dummy consoles prevents a call
to systemd-vconsole when no text is displayed on the console, and as a
consequence, the keymap will not be set in that case. This is wrong and
leads to issues when keyboard input is expected without text on the
console, e.g., when a graphical password prompt is used in the boot
process.
This reverts commit 6b169c13ec,
which introduced the exception for dummy devices to save unnecessary
udev calls.
Fixes#10826.
[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=83d83bebf40132e2d55ec58af666713cc76f9764
Commit 100d5f6ee6 (user-util: add new wrappers for [...] database
files), ammended by commit 4f07ffa8f5 (Use #if instead of #ifdef for
ENABLE_GSHADOW) moved code from sysuser to basic/user-util.
In doing so, the combination of both commits properly propagated the
ENABLE_GSHADOW conditions around the function manipulating gshadow, but
they forgot to protect the inclusion of the gshadow.h header.
Fix that to be able to build on C libraries that do not provide gshadow
(e.g. uClibc-ng, where it does not exist.)
Lennart Poettering
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Daniel van Vugt
Yu Watanabe
Evgeny Vereshchagin
Tim Ruffing
Yann E. MORIN