I think I may have run into another issue related to the same bug. While the login loop problem appears to have been fixed, the fix does not seem to have cascaded down to other prompts that one may encounter in special circumstances. In my case, I had an external USB drive connected to my server and this happened to have been powered off (physically) when booting. As expected, the system did not complete the boot process and stopped (momentarily) at the "Enter Ctrl-D etc" prompt to allow repair. Well, it just kept going. I was unable to get in at all and eventually just had to physically reset the box and reconnect power to the USB drive. So the looping that used to happen at the console login persists when dropping to the emergency shell. I will be grateful if anyone else can confirm. Just add a spurious entry to fstab and try to reboot.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813873 Title: Userspace break as a result of missing patch backport Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Cosmic: Fix Released Bug description: Hi, The most recent set of Ubuntu kernels applied a variety of tty patches including: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c96cf923a98d1b094df9f0cf97a83e118817e31b But have not applied the more recent https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d3736d82e8169768218ee0ef68718875918091a0 patch. This second patch is required to prevent a rather serious regression where userspace applications reading from stdin can receive EAGAIN when they should not. I will try to link correspondence from the mailing list archives once they are available, but for now if you have access to the linux- console mailing list you can find discussion under the thread "Userspace break? read from STDIN returns EAGAIN if tty is "touched"". I would appreciate it if this could be examined soon as it is a regression on userspace. Thanks Michael Good: 4.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 6 14:45:28 UTC 2018 Bad: 4.15.0-44-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 14 11:26:59 UTC 2019 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1813873/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
