[gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

[gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

[Fredrik Lundgren]

Dear Gentoos,

Is the information that runs on the screen before and after X is started 
or closed saved in some place or can it be saved or retrieved somehow?

Fredrik 


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Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:39:38 +0100, Fredrik Lundgren wrote:

> Is the information that runs on the screen before and after X is
> started or closed saved in some place or can it be saved or retrieved
> somehow?

The early part of the startup information is available from
dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG
in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file.


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RE: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

[Michael Kintzios]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fredrik Lundgren [mailto:fredrik.bg.lundgren@bredband.net] 
> Sent: 06 February 2006 13:40
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...
> 
> 
> Dear Gentoos,
> 
> Is the information that runs on the screen before and after X 
> is started 
> or closed saved in some place or can it be saved or retrieved somehow?
> 
> Fredrik 

Have a look at this (recent) post:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/153050/

There may be other/better ways of achieving the same thing using e.g.
nohup and script?
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[gentoo-user] Re: ...startup information on screen...

[Harry Putnam]

Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:

> The early part of the startup information is available from
> dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG
> in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file.

Sounded like OP might have meant just when X starts and stops.

To: Fredrick
Have you looked at /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

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[gentoo-user] Re: ...startup information on screen...

[Harry Putnam]

Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:

> The early part of the startup information is available from
> dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG
> in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file.

Where do the logs go from setting that.  Added to dmesg?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ...startup information on screen...

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:33:44 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:

> > The early part of the startup information is available from
> > dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG
> > in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file.
> 
> Where do the logs go from setting that.  Added to dmesg?

/var/log/boot.msg


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ...startup information on screen...

[Peter Ruskin]

On Monday 06 February 2006 17:33, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > The early part of the startup information is available from
> > dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG
> > in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file.
>
> Where do the logs go from setting that.  Added to dmesg?

/var/log/boot.msg

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Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

[Jorge Almeida]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:39:38 +0100, Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
>
>> Is the information that runs on the screen before and after X is
>> started or closed saved in some place or can it be saved or retrieved
>> somehow?
>
> The early part of the startup information is available from
> dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG
> in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file.
>
I gave it a try, and it seems that not everything gets logged:
 	$ cat /var/log/boot.msg

 	 * Activating (possible) swap ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Checking root filesystem ...
 	/home: clean, 48404/256512 files, 122807/512064 blocks
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Remounting root filesystem read/write ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Setting hostname to moria ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Calculating module dependencies ...
 	 * System.map not found - unable to check symbols
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Checking all filesystems ...
 	/boot: clean, 45/8032 files, 9889/32098 blocks
 	/1: clean, 237777/768544 files, 880666/1536215 blocks
 	/dev/hda12: clean, 35/131616 files, 4220/263056 blocks
 	/dev/hdb1: clean, 14439/3842720 files, 4020444/7679062 blocks
 	/dev/hdb4: clean, 62419/4374528 files, 2600814/8747392 blocks
 	/dev/hda13: clean, 66726/1284224 files, 802063/2568384 blocks
 	/: clean, 4035/513024 files, 40118/1024143 blocks
 	/dev/hda11: clean, 141207/780288 files, 1043596/1560305 blocks (check in 2 mounts)
 	/dev/hda10: clean, 2559/788704 files, 971368/1574362 blocks
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Mounting local filesystems ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Mounting USB device filesystem (usbfs) ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Activating (possibly) more swap ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Configuring kernel parameters ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Updating environment ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Cleaning /tmp directory ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Coldplugging input devices ...
 	  [ ok ]
 	 * Coldplugging isapnp devices ...
 	  [ ok ]
What about everything from "Coldplugging pnp devices ..." to the end
(net, local, etc.) ?
Is this normal?
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Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

[Robert Crawford]

Same problem here- I've tried for a while to figure it out, with no luck. I'd 
also like to not have it not overwritten with each boot, and appended 
instead.

On Friday 10 February 2006 04:09, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:39:38 +0100, Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
> >> Is the information that runs on the screen before and after X is
> >> started or closed saved in some place or can it be saved or retrieved
> >> somehow?
> >
> > The early part of the startup information is available from
> > dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG
> > in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file.
>
> I gave it a try, and it seems that not everything gets logged:
>  	$ cat /var/log/boot.msg
>
>  	 * Activating (possible) swap ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Checking root filesystem ...
>  	/home: clean, 48404/256512 files, 122807/512064 blocks
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Remounting root filesystem read/write ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Setting hostname to moria ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Calculating module dependencies ...
>  	 * System.map not found - unable to check symbols
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Checking all filesystems ...
>  	/boot: clean, 45/8032 files, 9889/32098 blocks
>  	/1: clean, 237777/768544 files, 880666/1536215 blocks
>  	/dev/hda12: clean, 35/131616 files, 4220/263056 blocks
>  	/dev/hdb1: clean, 14439/3842720 files, 4020444/7679062 blocks
>  	/dev/hdb4: clean, 62419/4374528 files, 2600814/8747392 blocks
>  	/dev/hda13: clean, 66726/1284224 files, 802063/2568384 blocks
>  	/: clean, 4035/513024 files, 40118/1024143 blocks
>  	/dev/hda11: clean, 141207/780288 files, 1043596/1560305 blocks (check in
> 2 mounts) /dev/hda10: clean, 2559/788704 files, 971368/1574362 blocks
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Mounting local filesystems ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Mounting USB device filesystem (usbfs) ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Activating (possibly) more swap ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Configuring kernel parameters ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Updating environment ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Cleaning /tmp directory ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Coldplugging input devices ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Coldplugging isapnp devices ...
>  	  [ ok ]
> What about everything from "Coldplugging pnp devices ..." to the end
> (net, local, etc.) ?
> Is this normal?
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RE: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

[Michael Kintzios]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Crawford [mailto:flacycads@cox.net] 
> Sent: 10 February 2006 09:32
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...
> 
> 
> Same problem here- I've tried for a while to figure it out, 
> with no luck. I'd 
> also like to not have it not overwritten with each boot, and appended 
> instead.

I think that /var/log/syslog does a better job for what you want, as I
have commented in a previous response (not sure if it appeared in the
list - it's been playing up lately on my end).
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Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

[Robert Crawford]

On Friday 10 February 2006 05:46, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Crawford [mailto:flacycads@cox.net]
> > Sent: 10 February 2006 09:32
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...
> >
> >
> > Same problem here- I've tried for a while to figure it out,
> > with no luck. I'd
> > also like to not have it not overwritten with each boot, and appended
> > instead.
>
> I think that /var/log/syslog does a better job for what you want, as I
> have commented in a previous response (not sure if it appeared in the
> list - it's been playing up lately on my end).
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> Regards,
> Mick

Mick,
Syslog gives good info, but what we are referring to is under No.5 "Tips & 
Tricks" here:
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050822-newsletter.xml

Although it says all the boot messages as seen on the sreen will be logged 
into /var/log/boot.msg, they aren't all there.

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