From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MEI5l-000441-M0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:19:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5825BE052D; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:19:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C871E052D for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:19:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7D277367EF5 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:19:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:19:22 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text Message-ID: <20090610081922.4c6eee48@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <6034F200-E2E3-4454-B161-477708858571@wright.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs71 (GTK+ 2.16.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/VL0Y7zxpet1Nj4mLeFpRw=H"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: c11deb8b-7a8c-41ff-87e5-5043ff130b75 X-Archives-Hash: c7ba3c4907ac1c8a2d9df12177269cc3 --Sig_/VL0Y7zxpet1Nj4mLeFpRw=H Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:52:26 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Yes, just the first few `blah [ok]' lines... maybe 3. >=20 > > Assuming that's the scenario, boot with your install media, enter the > > chroot, then take a peek at the logs in /var/log. Hopefully you can > > find > > a hint. > > =20 >=20 > In progress on you suggestion now.=20 > But no syslog is running in the chroot.(is it?) But still looking > around.=20 Have you got rc_logger=3D"YES" in /etc/rc.conf? If so, look at /var/log/rc.log. --=20 Neil Bothwick Daddy? What's this little red button for? --Sig_/VL0Y7zxpet1Nj4mLeFpRw=H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkovXnoACgkQum4al0N1GQPk+gCfS3UpshF0B7fS9u8cSds11vx+ bCQAniaDgmJwfzPWdM43hPvwaA7D4VtT =97Nr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/VL0Y7zxpet1Nj4mLeFpRw=H--