As pointed out in #366, the configure options --enable-fastboot and
--enable-fsckfix should just alter the default values of the two fsck
command line options.
This commit simplifies the code and makes it possible to override using
the command line regardless of the two build options.
Finally, add the two command line options to doc/cmdline.md
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
The rescue mode that can be invoked from the kernel command line is
potentially unsafe. Many systems lock the root user account, or use
another account for managing, e.g. 'admin'. The sulogin program(s)
would on such systems give the user a root prompt.
In #357 we added support for setting a custom sulogin user, but for some
systems that is not enough. On many embedded systems the /etc/passwd
and shadow files are populated at bootstrap and at the time rescue mode
runs, these files will be unpopulated.
The only, truly safe, approach on such systems is to disable rescue mode
completely. Otherwise intricate Finit plugins have to be used that run
before rescue mode is started -- increasing the complexity of the system
as a whole.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This change adds support for a new command line option finit.config=PATH
which can be used to tell Finit to start with /etc/factory.conf instead
of /etc/finit.conf.
For the complete experience a new top-level configuration file directive
`rcsd PATH` has aslo been added. It in turn can be used by factory.conf
as follows to override /etc/finit.d:
rcsd /etc/factory.d
Manually verified in myLinux
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
As a real life example, this can be useful for a mfgtest mode for the
device, wherein the bootloader can be set to finit.cond=test_mode or
finit.cond=user_mode and then specific services can start up in test
mode which wouldn't normally start.
Or even custom firmware update mode such as finit.cond=fw_update_mode
which performs some specific firmware update steps and doesn't launch
normal processes.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
When logged in from sulogin we cannot send IPC to Finit, not even
signals, to delegate reboot. For usability, attempt to tell reboot that
it's in sulogin mode -- provided the bundled sulogin is used -- to let
reboot trigger over to forced reboot.
We cannot do much about initctl, just document this as a limitation.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This adds support for bringing up the system with an alternate fstab at
boot. E.g., when using a primary/secondary setup for boot partitions.
By default /etc/fstab is read, like before, this can now be changed
using configure --with-fstab=/path/to/fstab.primary, which sets the
default that can be overridden using finit.fstab=/etc/fstab.secondary
If mounting, or fsck, fails in any way, Finit calls its own bundled
sulogin, or the system sulogin(8), to let the user handle the issue.
If there is no sulogin available, Finit will try to start up in its
rescue.conf boot mode.
Please note, in either of these rescue modes, use `reboot -f` to get the
system to reboot. Finit is on pause in the background in rescue mode
and cannot be relied on (since there may not be any writable filesystems
available.).
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
Usability.
Remains backwards compatible for now, but finit.show_status is as of 4.3
deprecated. Likely to be removed int 5.0
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This is needed since 5ff27c4f when support for debugging Finit and the
kernel independently was added.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
For most use-cases the kernel will give Finit its arguments as proper
command line args in argc + argv[], like any other program. However,
for some users, most notably Alpine Linux, there is a slightly broken
initramfs that cannot forward more than one argument using init_args,
for such systems you can re-enable the old behavior with a configure
switch --enable-kernel-cmdline -- it's not ideal but what can you do.
The main reason for removing this feature by default is to support
use-cases where Finit runs as the init for container apps that can read
/proc -- we do not want them to use the init args from the host.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch reverts back to the progress/status behavior of Finit < v3.0
because this is what most users expect, including the maintainer. The
resulting code and configure script is a lot simpler to understand and
maintain:
- No more --enable-progress or --enable-progress-classic configure
flags. Instead a progress_style variable in helpers.c that can
be changed at compile time for those that really need it.
- No more 'splash' kernel commnand line option. This turned out to
be *very* confusing to many users who believed it was some sort of
graphical splash screen à la Plymouth.
Also, when Finit debug is enabled we now have a global 'debug' flag
which now alo controls if klogctl() should be called to prevent the
kernel logs to the console or not.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
Joachim Wiberg