Brian wrote:
> On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 14:38:30 +0000, Robin wrote:
>
> > Assuming it should be booting to a graphical login screen, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1
> > which will take you to a text console which may show some errors that you
> > can post here.
>
> By default the screen is cleared of boot messages, There is only a login
> prompt.
Yes. Between util-linux 2.17.2-9 and 2.20.1-4 getty has changed and
it now clears the screen. This seems like a good thing on the surface
until you find out that it destroys the boot time messages including
any errors that are on the screen at the time. To prevent this a new
option --noclear has appeared. Editing the /etc/inittab to add the
--noclear option to getty will prevent the new screen clearing
behavior and allow the error messages there to be seen.
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty --noclear 38400 tty1
Also in Wheezy 7 the "bootlogd" is broken out into a separate package.
If you want bootlogs in /var/log as it was in Squeezy 6 then you need
to install the new package.
apt-get install bootlogd
The changelog for the package says:
sysvinit-utils (2.88dsf-17) unstable; urgency=low
bootlogd has moved from sysvinit-utils to a separate bootlogd package. If
you wish to continue using bootlogd, please install the bootlogd package.
Note that the configuration file /etc/default/bootlogd and its option
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE no longer exist; if you do not wish to run bootlogd, remove
the bootlogd package.
-- Josh Triplett Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:03:08 +0000
Bob
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