Where do I find the startup log?

Mad_Dude · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:20 am Post subject: Where do I find the startup log?

Hi all

I just installed 2.6.11-r3 and when booting up, I saw some errors but they went by pretty fast. Where can I find the log so as to trace the problems? Currently the system seems to be working fine, eth, sound, display etc, so I'm curious as to what went wrong.

Thanks!

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Sith_Happens · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:36 am Post subject:

With most system loggers, the information stored in the kernel ring buffer (what dmesg prints) is automatically logged to a file in /var/log, usually /var/log/messages or /var/log/kernel, something like that.
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Mad_Dude · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:17 am Post subject:

Thanks for the reply dudes! Yeap, I know that the logs are at var/log ( hope i dun sound rude

) but then I can't seem to find what is going wrong as I saw some sugid error running pass and some other errors. My hardware seems to be running fine. Hmm.. to make my self clear, I'm trying to find the log where when booting up.. they show the [ok] sign part.

transienteagle · Apprentice Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 190 Location: UK

Mad_Dude,

As the other guy's have stated dmesg is the normal tool to be used, however you have to remember that dmesg will only report agaist kernel events and on startup you will have a number of "userspace" processes that will report to the console but not to the kernel ring buffer (dmesg) or make an entry in the syslog's.

What I think you need is ,effectively a console scrape program to be run at boot time so that you can see all messages as they appeared on the console.

You should have a program called bootlogd on your system (part of baselayout??) which will do the job

rgds

TE

Sith_Happens · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:

transienteagle · Apprentice Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 190 Location: UK

Sith,

Which are of course kernel (controlled/effected) events; so correctly show up in dmesg..........contrast this with a problem with udev....which will not show up in dmesg.............but will be reported by bootlogd

rgds

TE

Sith_Happens · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 2:05 pm Post subject:

If you run dhcpcd with the -d flag, it will create debugging output that will show up in dmesg.
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Mad_Dude · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject:

Hi Guys

Thanks for your help. I tested the startup scripts one by one and I've tracked it down to the SVSCAN service. There are some problems with the script, not too sure why but I've already unmerge it. How do I go about installing bootlogd as I can't find any HOWTO in the Gentoo-Wiki or sorts?

Once again, thanks for making my Gentoo experience a much better one!

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dsd · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject: