[Bug 936667] Re: Upstart early job logging causes boot failure for systems with no initramfs (error is "No available ptys")

[Juan Solano]

@James: I hit this issue when upgrading to 1.4-0ubuntu8.  I added your
PPA repository and tried to build your version 1.4-0ubuntu9 on my
pandaboard (armhf architecture) but I got the following errors:

BAD: wrong content in file 0x407e9298 (output), expected 'hello world
' got 'hello world'
	at tests/test_job_process.c:1673 (test_run).
/bin/bash: line 5: 21763 Aborted                 ${dir}$tst
FAIL: test_job_process
....
...ensure remainder of log written when file deleted with uid 0
BAD: wrong value for output, got unexpected (nil)
	at tests/test_log.c:832 (test_log_new).
/bin/bash: line 5: 22431 Aborted                 ${dir}$tst
FAIL: test_log
...
BAD: wrong value for block file, got unexpected NULL
	at tests/test_conf.c:285 (test_source_reload_job_dir).
/bin/bash: line 5: 22782 Aborted                 ${dir}$tst
FAIL: test_conf
....
===============================================
3 of 14 tests failed
Please report to upstart-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
===============================================
make[4]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/juan/upstart-1.4/init'
make[3]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/juan/upstart-1.4/init'
make[2]: *** [check] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/juan/upstart-1.4/init'
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juan/upstart-1.4'
dh_auto_test: make -j1 check returned exit code 2
make: *** [build] Error 29
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

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Title:
  Upstart early job logging causes boot failure for systems with no
  initramfs (error is "No available ptys")

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When booting 12.04 after a recent update, I see "init(4): no available
  ptys" being displayed faster than a machine gun. When I add --no-log
  as a kernel option and I'm able to boot just fine.

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