Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread SanskritFritz
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Did you remember to delete the special characters from /etc/issue ? > Ah, you're right, I forgot about that. Now it works, thank you!

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM, SanskritFritz wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> > >> > Not sure if someone already posted this: >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980 >> > >> >> That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK. "--noclear" is the >> option to

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM, SanskritFritz wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> > >> > Not sure if someone already posted this: >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980 >> > >> >> That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK. "--noclear" is the >> option to

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread SanskritFritz
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > Not sure if someone already posted this: > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980 > > > > That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK. "--noclear" is the > option to use. > Strange, it doesnt work for me :( here is what I have in

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
> > Not sure if someone already posted this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980 > That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK. "--noclear" is the option to use. J.A.

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I can't reboot either, but I'm pretty sure you're right. I suppose the > --noclear is new and was not "advertised" > > Thanks > > Jorge > Not sure if someone already posted this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:30 AM, cantabile wrote: > On 09/27/2011 10:33 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> > > agetty(8) says: > --noclear >   Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name >   (the screen is normally cleared). > > So try that and let me know if it works (don't remove -i).

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
> > FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next > filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now). > Yes, that's really the point. Clearing or not the terminal, depending on the flag, seems the proper way to do it, rather than editing /etc/issue. > Also, if you want t

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages >> > > Thank you. It seems the behaviour of agetty changed. The --noclear > option appears to be the relevant one. I think it wasn't there before, > but I may be wrong. >

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages > Thank you. It seems the behaviour of agetty changed. The --noclear option appears to be the relevant one. I think it wasn't there before, but I may be wrong. Jorge

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process >> that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed >> and the login prompt appears. I had (and

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Martti Kühne
hey this quick and minimalistic patch [1] to rc.{sysinit,single,multi} here works to capture almost the complete boot output in per-script manner in /bootlog. don't forget to mkdir /bootlog when you apply it. use less -r to read them, and don't be irritated, it will change the results for right-al

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-09-27 12:55:51 +0200: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:12:29PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > > FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next > > filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now). > > > > Also, if you want to

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:12:29PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next > filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now). > > Also, if you want to see what happened during boot, there is /var/log/boot Something remotely related

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread cantabile
On 09/27/2011 10:33 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab: c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process >> that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed >> and the login prompt appears. I had (and

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process >> that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed >> and the login prompt appears. I had (and

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Patrick Burroughs
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida wrote: > There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process > that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed > and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab: > > c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 3

[arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab: c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux I added the "-i" to prevent clearing the term