From 985837dab9c892858a92ae50043843307f5e0714 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>

Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:29:11 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] core: try to reopen /dev/kmsg again right after mounting /dev

I was debugging stuff during early boot, and was confused that I never

found the logs for it in kmsg. The reason for that was that /proc is

generally not mounted the first time we do log_open() and hence

log_set_target(LOG_TARGET_KMSG) we do when running as PID 1 had not

effect. A lot later during start-up we call log_open() again where this

is fixed (after the point where we close all remaining fds still open),

but in the meantime no logs every got written to kmsg. This patch fixes

that.

(cherry picked from commit 0a2eef1ee1fef74be9d12f7dc4d0006b645b579c)

Resolves: #1749212

---

 src/core/main.c | 5 +++++

 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/core/main.c b/src/core/main.c

index 44dd8348be..af7b26d6f1 100644

--- a/src/core/main.c

+++ b/src/core/main.c

@@ -2215,6 +2215,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

                                         goto finish;

                                 }

+                                /* Let's open the log backend a second time, in case the first time didn't

+                                 * work. Quite possibly we have mounted /dev just now, so /dev/kmsg became

+                                 * available, and it previously wasn't. */

+                                log_open();

+

                                 r = initialize_security(

                                                 &loaded_policy,

                                                 &security_start_timestamp,