Re: reading boot messages
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Wu-Kung Sun wrote:
> Hello all,
> how can I read the boot messages? I've had some big problems today
> which I'll use other emails for but now when I reboot, suddenly
> ifconfig reports a ppp0 and ppp1. Before I only had a ppp0. I got
> some sort of ppp error with instructions but I can't read it fast
> enough. I can't see it switching to tty1 and dmesg doesn't reveal the
> information. Any help?
1. Use dmesg
2. See /var/log/messages and /var/log/boot.log
3. If that doesn't work, just examine the remaining logs.
Oh, and seems that in Debian systems PPP messages go to
/var/log/ppp-connect-errors, be sure to examine these too.
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