Start network option prints errior about /etc/default/rcS, fails to return to menu

Bug #1787696 reported by Tom Reynolds
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

On 18.04.1, the 'start network' option on the recovery menu prints this error on screen

  /lib/recovery-mode/recovery-menu: line 75: /etc/default/rcS: No such file or directory

and gets stuck after
  ...
  [ OK ] Listening on Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status /dev/rfkill Watch.
  [ OK ] Reached target Sound Card.

Pressing Enter does nothing, pressing Ctrl-C resumes the boot.

As such, there is currently no way to start the network from the recovery menu (other than doing it manually from the root shell), and remounting / rw needs to be typed manually on the root prompt as well.

(Either result of this option is good to have when guiding less experienced users through recovery for remote support.)
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-01 (16 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.38
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
Tags: bionic
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

_MarkForUpload: True

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Tom Reynolds (tomreyn) wrote : Dependencies.txt

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tags: added: apport-collected bionic
description: updated
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Tom Reynolds (tomreyn) wrote : ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt

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Tom Reynolds (tomreyn) wrote : ProcEnviron.txt

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in friendly-recovery (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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