Re: Where's the log
On 2014-09-02 17:13 +0200, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 09/02/2014 at 10:05 AM, Bzzzz wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:44:36 -0400 The Wanderer
>> <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you already check dmesg? That's where I usually find the
>>> messages which appear during a(n attempt at) suspend/resume.
>>
>> Of course, as I made a grep for 'pci' into /var/log …
>
> I often find that there is text in dmesg which - to the best of my
> ability to determine - is not visible in any file under /var/log/.
That's not my experience, I see everything in /var/log/kern.log.
> My working hypothesis is that the dmesg buffer is kept in RAM, never
> goes to disk, and is lost after reboot. That's the only thing I've been
> able to think of that matches the behavior I seem to have observed.
If you're using sysvinit, early messages (before syslog starts) will not
be in /var/log/kern.log, but the bootlogs init script writes them to
/var/log/dmesg instead.
Cheers,
Sven
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