On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:49 PM, David C.
Rankin<drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>        Seems like a simple question, but I've searched /var/log and can't 
> find a file that contains the boot history showing all the "fail" messages 
> during boot. For some reason after the latest update, my i686 box showed a 
> half dozen or so "fail" messages. I need to find the log of what died.
>
>        The upside to this? This was my i686 box that would no longer start 
> kde after the next-previous set of updates. Now kde4 starts fine again.
>
>        Whatever failed can't be that critical because the box is functioning 
> fine, but I still want to find out what failed. If the file is in /var/log, 
> then I just flat missed it. I thought it would be daemons.log, but I found no 
> fail messages.

This might not actually be logged anywhere now that I think about it.
To devs- am I wrong, or maybe we should add some syslog foo in here so
this stuff is more easily traceable?

I personally disable the VC on tty1 in inittab on all machines so that
no console overwrites the boot screen.

-Dan

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