From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745AA1384EF for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF0A921C14D; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com (mail-wi0-f179.google.com [209.85.212.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3577221C141 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:53:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f179.google.com with SMTP id o1so1678704wic.6 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:53:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :organization:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=QZ0lnTQhh+k4EU/qjjK9IMv60Tce+c/NriJ7TKio2qg=; b=hRxY3SaLUup5fgUNtiqI6xgAFj65dJkpT/ZTQLwsp0qeDrkdRYU3InQFHvS0Y1bC44 EtfhxKKndQQV7IXqaLz/JPJqYlYQJJjW+0XSm+x8BdNIiDvntV/wBUAX0nJT8jawaV7G jZP/roQZ+6YSnU1UAMMXQyFCKxO0lMa50owOuTWc6XYv6LUVzmHP3WgWXMEtFp3QFW9C Vvgym8W5dlMrz5Gft5shpGIDOV+2GcC3ekB3Pe/VFftOLashyG5k9yBS46ypDbMLhS9d Mdlczr0P1J3kxZgSocVb0A+ZlnZEJ7i8SRvchlngzFUjys1PfxRs6Rf5diabSZzaCdMi YnoQ== X-Received: by 10.180.84.193 with SMTP id b1mr12141574wiz.26.1358369587861; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:53:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-210-202-210.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.202.210]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w5sm10020342wif.11.2013.01.16.12.53.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:53:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:52:48 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow Message-ID: <20130116225248.34e1e06a@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20130116175249.GE2656@server> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 25462b1d-9e31-4207-89df-61099eab7864 X-Archives-Hash: a2de216483705e86a41439ba3adf7c41 On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:29:04 -0600 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: > > > > But, in the failures I've been seeing today, it's not getting to > > agetty. The "clear screen and halt" happens at the "waiting for udev > > events" step... > > FWIW I have also noticed on my machine that somewhere in the middle of > the OpenRC boot process, the screen gets cleared. Haven't completely > tracked it down yet. In /etc/inittab you need to change stuff like this c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux to this c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux --noclear There's a clear elog about this at the end of the util-linux emerge, perhaps you missed it > > You can enable logging in your rc.conf to log all of the openrc > output, that might help you see what was on-screen before it got > cleared away. You also might be able to enable interactive mode and go > through it step-by-step to see what's happening in real-time at your > own pace. > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com