Trandahl, Steve wrote:
I am having trouble with some of my modules at during boot-up. I can see
the error messages fly by, but when I use dmesg, I don't see the errors.
How can I find out what these errors and/or warning messages are once Debian
has booted?
Thanks in advance!
Steve Trandahl
Cotelligent, Inc
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I've found that if you have xdm/gdm/kdm/wdm (I'm not sure which one(s)
cause the problem) starting X automatically, about the only way to find
these module errors is to look in the log files for the individual modules.
A better way, is to disable xdm/gdm/kdm/wdm, then reboot. When you get
logged in, you can then Shift-PgUp through the error messages. (For some
reason, xdm/gdm/kdm/wdm seems to clear out the Shift-PgUp history, so
this method doesn't work if one of them is installed. Again, I'm not
sure which one(s) cause this behaviour; I'm currently using wdm at home,
nothing at work, but I used to and don't remember which, and it's been
so long since I've had to reboot, I've forgotten even which machine I
needed to look at these errors on.)
A third method would be to manually run each script in your startup
sequence (/etc/rcS, then etc/rc2.d probably) with a "restart", which
will let you see each message as the module loads. But this might have
some side effects if you're not careful.
Kent
