From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C63C11382C5 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:55:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 176FBE08BF; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:55:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 974ACE0878 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:55:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1kzdo6-0004Up-Sl for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:55:18 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:55:18 +0000 Message-ID: <7866302.T7Z3S40VBb@peak> In-Reply-To: <4303403.LvFx2qVVIh@dell_xps> References: <2189375.ElGaqSPkdT@peak> <4303403.LvFx2qVVIh@dell_xps> 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01d-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: 462d6525-2507-4353-9997-ab13a9cfac07 X-Archives-Hash: fe5142e119707b17fd9b227632693b5a On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:38:01 GMT Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:30:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I see that the kernel code to scroll the console has been stripped out > > [1]. What do people use instead? > > > > This loss is a nuisance while installing a new system, as I am still > > trying to do on my old laptop. > > > > 1. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/09/15/1824233&from=rss > > A relief to see I'm not alone in experiencing this problem - I thought I had > misconfigured something on my systems. :-) > > A way around it would be to use screen or tmux and use their internal > buffer. However, if you're already logged in a console and suddenly want to > Shift+PageUp, then it would be too late. This suggestion won't help if you > want to look at the rc scripts output as the system boots, but you can > capture these separately in syslog. It's a pain in the neck while trying to emerge a base system and being thrown scores of lines of reasons why it can't be done, with the prime cause long gone. I tried using "| tee 2>&1 > /tmp/file" and then viewing the file on another vTTY, but there ought to be a neater way. -- Regards, Peter.