Dracut

Reporting Problems

Before filing a bug, please read up on BugReporting, which will tell you how to fill out useful bug reports that will help us quickly solve your problem. Also try searching bugzilla for other reports about your problem, as some bugs are often filed by several people.

Getting the Source

The primary methods of distributing the Dracut source are source RPMs in the Fedora development tree and git. To access the current source code in in non-rpm format, you'll need to install git.

yum install git

Note that several related packages will be installed as well. After the git source code management tool has been installed, then you use anonymous git access to the Dracut repository.

git clone http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/dracut

If you have committer access to Dracut, then you will want to use the git+ssh access url.

git clone git+ssh://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/dracut

git clone http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/dracut

Once you've committed changes locally, you can push them with

git push

If you would just like to browse the Dracut git repository via the web, then please use one of the following two Dracut git URLs .

http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/dracut http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut;a=summary

Debugging

rdinitdebug

set -x for the dracut shell

rdbreak=[pre-udev|pre-mount|mount|pre-pivot|]

drop the shell on defined breakpoint

rdudevinfo

set udev to loglevel info

dudevdebug

set udev to loglevel debug

rdnetdebug

debug network scripts in dracut