Re: another place where bootup messages are recorded?

2006-09-01 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 13:50, John Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:35:12 -0700, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >Is there another place where bootup messages are recorded? > > Does your /etc/default/bootlogd say: > > # Run bootlogd at

Re: another place where bootup messages are recorded?

2006-08-30 Thread John Kelly
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:35:12 -0700, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there another place where bootup messages are recorded? Does your /etc/default/bootlogd say: > # Run bootlogd at startup ? > BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes That captures additional messages in /var/log/boot Be

Re: another place where bootup messages are recorded?

2006-08-30 Thread Owen Heisler
of dmesg. Is there > another place where bootup messages are recorded? Perhaps you'd like to try the Scroll Lock during boot-up -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

another place where bootup messages are recorded?

2006-08-30 Thread tom arnall
Recently I have begun to get a great number of messages at boot-up which are about 'querying' scsi drives. I need to get a better look at the messages but cannot find them in the logs in /var/log nor in the output of dmesg. Is there another place where bootup messages are recorded?

[Resolved] Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Ingram
Colin Ingram wrote: Greg wrote: It matters because if Paulo or anyone else is not using udev then they want be affected by the udev/bootlogd init script bug. Mainly because they want have /etc/init.d/udev on their system which umounts /dev/pts so bootlogd can no longer work. I can't bel

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Ingram
Greg wrote: Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Colin Ingram wrote on Jun, 15: This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and neither: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 I don't think these are needed or that they are the problem seem to be configured (checked /b

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Greg
Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Colin Ingram wrote on Jun, 15: This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and neither: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 I don't think these are needed or that they are the problem seem to be configured (checked /boot/config-2.4

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Dowland
Paulo M C Aragão wrote: My ignorance: how do I check if I am using devfs or udev ? Good question. I think `mount' will tell you in the case of devfs. I thought it would for udev too, but it hasn't uttered anything useful for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Colin Ingram wrote on Jun, 15: > >This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and > >neither: > > > >CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y > >CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 > > > > > I don't think these are needed or that they are the problem > > >seem to be configured (checked /boot/config-2.4.27

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Ingram
Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Stephen R Laniel wrote on Jun, 14: See also http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg03789.html This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and neither: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 I don't think these are neede

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Ingram
Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:20:07PM -0300, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: This fantastic list help me on this one before. Put this in /etc/default/bootlogd: BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes Next time you boot, every msg sent to /dev/console will end up in /var/log/boot. Cool! Tw

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-14 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Stephen R Laniel wrote on Jun, 14: > See also > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg03789.html This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and neither: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 seem to be configured (checked /boot/config-2.4.27-2-686), but bo

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:20:07PM -0300, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: > This fantastic list help me on this one before. > > Put this in /etc/default/bootlogd: > > BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes > > Next time you boot, every msg sent to /dev/console will end up in > /var/log/boot. Cool! Two things. 1) When I

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-14 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
John Kelly wrote on Jun, 13: > When booting, I see console messages from programs using stdout and > stderr, scrolling by too fast to read. They are not logged in dmesg > or any /var/log file. > > How to capture them? This fantastic list help me on this one before. Put this in /etc/default/boo

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-13 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:59:23PM -0400, John Kelly wrote: > I used sysv-rc-conf to enable it, but it did not start. Then I > noticed its script checks BOOTLOGD_ENABLE in /etc/default/bootlogd > before starting. > > Debian has a lot of knobs to turn; I see it will take some time to > learn my wa

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-13 Thread John Kelly
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:21:06 +0100, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 15:15 -0400, John Kelly wrote: >> When booting, I see console messages from programs using stdout and >> stderr, scrolling by too fast to read. They are not logged in dmesg >> or any /var/log file. >>

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-13 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Monday 13 June 2005 21.21, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 15:15 -0400, John Kelly wrote: > > When booting, I see console messages from programs using stdout and > > stderr, scrolling by too fast to read. They are not logged in dmesg > > or any /var/log file. > > > > How to capture them?

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-13 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 15:15 -0400, John Kelly wrote: > When booting, I see console messages from programs using stdout and > stderr, scrolling by too fast to read. They are not logged in dmesg > or any /var/log file. > > How to capture them? man bootlogd -- Michael Bane Atmospheric Physics Grou

How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-13 Thread John Kelly
When booting, I see console messages from programs using stdout and stderr, scrolling by too fast to read. They are not logged in dmesg or any /var/log file. How to capture them? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Capturing all bootup messages

2004-08-03 Thread Ogya Chief
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Capturing all bootup messages Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:54:31 +0200 On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:40:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a > >log file or, how can

Re: Capturing all bootup messages

2004-08-03 Thread Ogya Chief
We really need some standard way of capturing those messages. I think I've heard of some switch you can add or line you can uncomment in /etc/init.d/bootlog, but I'm not sure. One way that should work is to deactivate any auto-startup of X (kdm, etc) and then the next boot will stop at a cons

Re: Capturing all bootup messages

2004-08-03 Thread spambox
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:40:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a > >log file or, how can I pause the system to read those message? > >Pressing control-C or shift-break does not pause the system. > > > We really need some standard wa

Re: Capturing all bootup messages

2004-08-03 Thread Kent West
Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, When my machine is booting up, I see some fatal error messages scrolling past very fast. Running dmesg does not show those messages, neither does /var/log/messages. My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a log file or, how can I pause the sys

Capturing all bootup messages

2004-08-02 Thread Ogya Chief
Hi All, When my machine is booting up, I see some fatal error messages scrolling past very fast. Running dmesg does not show those messages, neither does /var/log/messages. My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a log file or, how can I pause the system to read those

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:37:44AM +0200, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > PS: I never understood why is bootlogd turned of by default. In case > some big guru is reading this, I would be grateful for a pointer to an > explanation. :) Gurus become gurus by reading. :) See the sysvinit changelog. sysvi

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-25 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does dmesg holds the complete log of the bootup messages? If not, is > there any way for me to retrieve and view the complete log of the > bootup messages? There is daemon called bootlogd which creates a bootlog-file named /var/log/boot. The bootlogd is pa

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-24 Thread Chris Bannister
L PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are > > >> scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning > > >> about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module > > >> (couldn't catch th

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Geoff Thurman wrote: Hello Hugo, That's interesting; I'll have to remember to add YMMV in future. I think the Ctrl-s and Ctrl-q bit might be in Paul Sheer's RUTE User's Tutorial and Exposition, but I'm not sure. I first saw it in a post on this list, from, I think, Colin Watson. The shift-Pgup

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:09:41AM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Set BOOTLOGD_ENABLE to yes in /etc/default/bootlogd ...you'll need version 2.85-9 of sysvinit / initscripts. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp00

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:41 pm, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Geoff Thurman wrote: > > On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are > >> scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Geoff Thurman wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch the rest).

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling > off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some > modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch > the re

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
Set BOOTLOGD_ENABLE to yes in /etc/default/bootlogd -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread GodMode
type in as root $ demsg | more GM - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 2:46 AM Subject: Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-16 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know where can I find logs for the various init level? They should be in /var/log. For example, in my /etc/rc2.d, I have the script "S99kdm", which is a symlink to /etc/init.d/kdm. So I look in /var/log, and sure enough there's a "kdm.log" file. However, not a

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-16 Thread users
Do you know where can I find logs for the various init level? Thanks :) > Kent Westwrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling > off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some > modules not found.

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-16 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch the rest). However, when I do a dmesg | grep -i microcode, it i

Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-16 Thread users
Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch the rest). However, when I do a dmesg | grep -i microcode, it is not found. Does dmesg hold

Re: How to have quieter bootup messages?

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jose Marin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > No, I don't mean the messages from the init scripts (I guess you can use > the VERBOSE variable in /etc/default/rcS for that); I mean the bootup > messages from the _kernel_, the ones you can read again with dmsg. Try Documentation/

How to have quieter bootup messages?

2000-03-16 Thread Jose Marin
No, I don't mean the messages from the init scripts (I guess you can use the VERBOSE variable in /etc/default/rcS for that); I mean the bootup messages from the _kernel_, the ones you can read again with dmsg. I searched the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt an

Re: bootup messages

1999-09-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jonas Steverud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Krosigk, Lorenz Von" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > is there a way to hide the bootup messages at the screen, to direct them > > (the important ones like warnings and errors) to a file and to show > > so

bootup messages

1999-09-27 Thread Krosigk, Lorenz Von
Hi, is there a way to hide the bootup messages at the screen, to direct them (the important ones like warnings and errors) to a file and to show something else on the screen meanwhile the machine starts up? I didn't find anything in the Boot-Promt HowTo nor in the init or inittab manpages (

Re: Is it possible to scroll back and see bootup messages on console?

1998-11-27 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian Land... The best way to see all the messages is to not run any programs on tty1 (the first virtual terminal - also the default terminal). You can then scroll all the way back to the bios boot information using the shift+pageup key combination. So long as you run no programs (or at

Re: Is it possible to scroll back and see bootup messages on console?

1998-11-27 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > > > In FreeBSD, you can hit the {Scroll Lock} button and scroll back on the > > console using {Page Up and {Page Donw} keys. > > > > Is there anything similar in Debian? > > > > Sure. Shift-PageUp and Shift-PageDown. At least, they work

Re: Is it possible to scroll back and see bootup messages on console?

1998-11-27 Thread Cesare Tagliaferri
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Stan Brown wrote: >In FreeBSD, you can hit the {Scroll Lock} button and scroll back on the > console using {Page Up and {Page Donw} keys. > > Is there anything similar in Debian? It is possible with SHIFT+PGUP, but you can also look at boot kernel messages by the c

Re: Is it possible to scroll back and see bootup messages on console?

1998-11-27 Thread Adam Lazur
works... but if it's just bootup messages you're looking for you can type 'dmesg' at the prompt and it will spit out all the kernel bootup stuff. HTH .adam -- Adam Lazur - Computer Engineering Undergrad - Lehigh University icq# 3354423 - http://www.lehigh.edu

Re: Is it possible to scroll back and see bootup messages on console?

1998-11-26 Thread AJT60
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > In FreeBSD, you can hit the {Scroll Lock} button and scroll back on the > console using {Page Up and {Page Donw} keys. > > Is there anything similar in Debian? > Sure. Shift-PageUp and Shift-PageDown. At least, they work in xterms. I *t

Is it possible to scroll back and see bootup messages on console?

1998-11-26 Thread Stan Brown
In FreeBSD, you can hit the {Scroll Lock} button and scroll back on the console using {Page Up and {Page Donw} keys. Is there anything similar in Debian? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta

Scary bootup messages

1998-06-20 Thread timothy
"...jade login: Jun 20 14:59:59 could not find host name "jade". VV_DTerminated." Then nothing else. But when I press enter it goes to the login prompt as usual. Any ideas? Timothy PS: My linux logo also kind of stopped working; its not on any of the VCs any more, what would cause this?

Re: Bootup messages... how to capture?

1997-01-17 Thread Zenon Fortuna
> > Zenon Fortuna wrote: > > > > Depending on the system setup, the most of the boot-up messages are also > > collected into "/var/log/messages". At least my Debian system works like > > that. > > this is unlikely to contain the kernel start up messages (as opposed to > stuff that started after

Re: bootup messages

1996-09-25 Thread Erik B Andersen
Easy enough to fix... Edit your /etc/conf.modules and add the following: alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off alias netmask off alias broadcast off (I only use the first two on my system, but it works for me...) -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.et.byu.edu/~andersee/ 248

bootup messages

1996-09-25 Thread Chris R. Martin
I recently recompiled, packaged, and installed a 2.0.20 kernel. I edited /etc/modules so that no modules are loaded at bootup (just using "auto"). However I now get the following messages at bootup: modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4 modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 """