Comment 0 for bug 1896604

Hi,

When running Groovy daily images on i3.metal instances a broken /dev/console is created. The char device appears to be writable but writing to it causes an Input/output error. This is breaking cloud-init, as it tries to log to /dev/console, and is likely to break other programs.

On Focal:

root@ip-172-31-24-163:~# ls -l /dev/console
crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 Sep 21 16:07 /dev/console
root@ip-172-31-24-163:~# echo x > /dev/console
root@ip-172-31-24-163:~#

On Groovy:

root@ip-172-31-20-184:~# ls -l /dev/console
crw--w---- 1 root tty 5, 1 Sep 21 16:03 /dev/console
root@ip-172-31-20-184:~# echo x > /dev/console
bash: echo: write error: Input/output error

The Groovy kernel log has a

[ 3.561696] fbcon: Taking over console

line in it, which is not present in the Focal kernel log (5.4.0-1024-aws). Perhaps fbcon should be prevented from taking over console?