I have found a bug in BB-P. In the last version of BackupMenu Robbie was kind enough to add a framebuffer console. This allows you to access the console through BM. One problem... Without BB-P it works fine. With BB-P it gets as far as asking for your username then crashes back to the BM main menu when you press return (to enter your username). It gives the error: "applet not found". This is the BB error for when a BB applet has been called but does not exist. Useually the name of the erroneously called applet is given in the error (foobar: applet not found). With BB-P installed there is no name supplied. I can confirm it is the BB-P package as if I remove it (apt-get uninstall) then try root console again it works, re-install, it fails.
The last line in BM when console is selected is: Code: busybox getty 115200 tty1 sh I assume BB then has to run 'login' or 'logon' or whatever and it is somehow failing. I don't really know my understanding of how a new shell is spawned is a bit...uh...thin.
busybox getty 115200 tty1 sh
The more I think about it the more i think this implies there is something with BB-P 'getty' applet. iDont, how is BB-P installed these days? Is the original binary still there? Can I change my 'getty' symlink to point to the old binary to test this? MOAR! The more I look, the more I see getty has been changed from v1.15->v1.19. Looking at the source they both #include the exact same files so potentially getty.c v1.15 could be substituted for getty.c v1.19. While it may work it doesn't explain why there is an issue (assuming it is even getty that is the problem) after all, all the changes to getty.c have been simple bug fixes right? RIGHT??