From: Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:20:50 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: initrd: Spawn an emergency shell when something goes wrong
X-Git-Tag: 2015-4~9024
X-Git-Url: https://code.ossystems.io/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ae5e2bd994e3f60d3803ab56e6ed34d08fbc56f0;p=openembedded-core.git

initrd: Spawn an emergency shell when something goes wrong

set -e allows to exit if a command fails. We install a trap and execute
emergency_shell() when either the init script exits or when ctrl-c is
typed (say if we are stuck somewhere and we want to debug it).

Signed-off-by: Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
---

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh
index 3fba7dc3a1..fb7af31a13 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,17 @@
 
 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 
+emergency_shell()
+{
+    echo "Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!"
+    echo
+    sh
+}
+trap "emergency_shell" 0 2
+
+# exit immediately if a command fails
+set -e
+
 ROOT_MOUNT="/rootfs/"
 ROOT_IMAGE="rootfs.img"
 MOUNT="/bin/mount"