Re: console messages flit by too fast
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:57:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see
> some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone.
> E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */*
> Nothing.
>
> You will answer "oh, mtab, don't worry about that".
> But the general problem of messages that appear at boot but go off the
> screen is not solved for me still. Am I really supposed to hit ^S^Q
> like back 30 years ago? What if I am not fast enough still?
>
> You will answer: that is the fault of whatever package author for also
> not logging his message to syslog. But that isn't helping me: what
> package? the name went by too fast.
>
> Isn't there something that I can turn on to capture all these, or are
> we too early in the startup?
Try using dmesg (or less /var/log/dmesg)
> Perhaps all the stupid questions I post about why I can't enter the
> audio age could be solved if I didn't miss one of those ominous
> messages that go by too fast.
Some clues as to the driver can sometimes be seen there.
> I hit ALT CTRL F1 etc. but I don't suppose those `man console(4)` tty
> can be scrolled backwards.
The console can be scrolled backwards (SHIFT+PG_UP), you can only scroll
what was put up after the last time you returned to it (in my experience).
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