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 6BFE613851D for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:36:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7307921C1A2; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-f51.google.com (mail-vb0-f51.google.com [209.85.212.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C92D521C001 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:36:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f51.google.com with SMTP id fq11so1799199vbb.38 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:36:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=pr3fN0MMxdXr9UpaFuY5hsl9RNFaOLBT+rEKbftGCzM=; b=TsMA59gOMqWTempkFqdanVOHSrm2gD2SPv/8nCCKJzlzcv20Z+SZGXlqoAPVB/QLpf 2U7A573tv4q4oORCuqFOW0YpKwBgCgDdfr0d0sMTUDiPPTOTUr5Pki1A++2FUmrRBPVO LfVUI7TjiusTGhJSoeVAGu9xaf8qLTZasB8ToqzxdpGzEG6I/go0hzCUEsVumOOe5FaL GKnfyiSYLj8hlmCiEP+kUJJ0HqGtJrSUbbijrTtSVMNf2AQtGhaOf5oEyKbki1iJXd7f yQcD7VjXu0nZf6K16sGC6IP/wvY8CQec0Is3Sa1HW2gQLZhBZyQjJEW1xBeGWLAQmwmh b2+Q== X-Received: by 10.52.75.100 with SMTP id b4mr6018850vdw.52.1358454970975; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:36:10 -0800 (PST) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.58.217.195 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:35:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20130116225248.34e1e06a@khamul.example.com> References: <20130116175249.GE2656@server> <20130116225248.34e1e06a@khamul.example.com> From: Paul Hartman Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:35:50 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mJeXGz6Ok_cvRlXKIB3EofqTxjA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 7a55f417-8cc3-49aa-813b-024ef40fed3e X-Archives-Hash: 0e161283299f57dd00486a52b436a60c On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 I already had that set. :) I'm not talking about clearing the screen at the login prompt; it clears mid-OpenRC during/after the udev step (as Grant also described), though in my case it does not halt but continues printing the rest of the OpenRC messages and eventually gets to the login prompt. I'm thinking it may be fbcondecor responsible for the blanking there. I'll need to experiment more with it.