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 1MEPMo-0002OD-A5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:05:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3787E0457; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:05:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4714E0457 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:05:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3016526E for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:05:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.926 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.926 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.327, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sWyUNdYhVI1r for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C3264318 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:05:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MEPMM-0000QW-Ux for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:05:02 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:05:02 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:05:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:01:02 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: References: <6034F200-E2E3-4454-B161-477708858571@wright.org> <20090610090951.4c295d0d@coercion> 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YYsNJ+St55SgcW0zjYxn1nQedMc= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: da3d82b6-c758-419d-ac02-2c78112f14e0 X-Archives-Hash: 7292e4c7341d3ca03399533f2b768ff8 Mike Kazantsev writes: > Okay, the syslog is probably not one of them, so /var/log shouldn't be > too populated, except for rc.log, which should be enabled specifically > in /etc/rc.conf (w/ baselayout-2) or /etc/conf.d/rc - look for > rc_logger line or something similar with older baselayout. [...] Thanks for the large array of possible ways to proceed. Nice tips to keep handy. I'm not spending any time on that problem now since its disappeared when I downgraded kernel version to 2.6.29-r2 instead of -r5. But these tips look very useful.