[arch-general] startup messages gone
There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab: c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux I added the "-i" to prevent clearing the terminal, and it worked. Not any more. Not even with Shift+PageUp. Anyone knows what changed? TIA Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux
I added the "-i" to prevent clearing the terminal, and it worked. Not any more. Not even with Shift+PageUp. Anyone knows what changed?
TIA
Jorge Almeida
There's a special character at the beginning of /etc/issue that clears the screen. Try removing that. ~Celti
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs <celticmadman@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux
I added the "-i" to prevent clearing the terminal, and it worked. Not any more. Not even with Shift+PageUp. Anyone knows what changed?
TIA
Jorge Almeida
There's a special character at the beginning of /etc/issue that clears the screen. Try removing that.
~Celti
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages
Thank you. It seems the behaviour of agetty changed. The --noclear option appears to be the relevant one. I think it wasn't there before, but I may be wrong. Jorge
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages
Thank you. It seems the behaviour of agetty changed. The --noclear option appears to be the relevant one. I think it wasn't there before, but I may be wrong.
Jorge
Yes, it's one of the new things. http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux-ng/ is still down, so you have to use 'man agetty' if you want to check other options.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs <celticmadman@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux
I added the "-i" to prevent clearing the terminal, and it worked. Not any more. Not even with Shift+PageUp. Anyone knows what changed?
TIA
Jorge Almeida
There's a special character at the beginning of /etc/issue that clears the screen. Try removing that.
FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now). Also, if you want to see what happened during boot, there is /var/log/boot Cheers, Tom
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:12:29PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now).
Also, if you want to see what happened during boot, there is /var/log/boot
Something remotely related for which I'd appreciate a solution: On one of the laptops I use, at some point during the boot sequence the display brightness is reduced to almost invisible. Any ideas of where to look to fix this ? TIA, -- FA
Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-09-27 12:55:51 +0200:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:12:29PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now).
Also, if you want to see what happened during boot, there is /var/log/boot
Something remotely related for which I'd appreciate a solution:
On one of the laptops I use, at some point during the boot sequence the display brightness is reduced to almost invisible.
Any ideas of where to look to fix this ?
TIA,
It could be a kernel bug with this specific laptop. When the display brightness control on my laptop didn't work I filed a bug at kernel.org, provided additional information and one or two kernel releases later it worked.
hey this quick and minimalistic patch [1] to rc.{sysinit,single,multi} here works to capture almost the complete boot output in per-script manner in /bootlog. don't forget to mkdir /bootlog when you apply it. use less -r to read them, and don't be irritated, it will change the results for right-aligned output (like [DONE]). dmesg errors aren't recorded, but those go to /var/log/dmesg.log anyway. [1] http://ix.io/1Tx/diff
FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now).
Yes, that's really the point. Clearing or not the terminal, depending on the flag, seems the proper way to do it, rather than editing /etc/issue.
Also, if you want to see what happened during boot, there is /var/log/boot
Thanks. Jorge
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs <celticmadman@gmail.com> wrote:
There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux
I added the "-i" to prevent clearing the terminal, and it worked. Not any more. Not even with Shift+PageUp. Anyone knows what changed? There's a special character at the beginning of /etc/issue that clears
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote: the screen. Try removing that.
The -i makes the contents of /etc/issue irrelevant. That's why I put in /etc/inittab, although it's not the best solution. Thanks J.A.
On 09/27/2011 10:33 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux
I added the "-i" to prevent clearing the terminal, and it worked. Not any more. Not even with Shift+PageUp. Anyone knows what changed?
TIA
Jorge Almeida
agetty(8) says: --noclear Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name (the screen is normally cleared). So try that and let me know if it works (don't remove -i). I'm also interested in this but I can't reboot atm. -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:30 AM, cantabile <cantabile.desu@gmail.com> wrote:
On 09/27/2011 10:33 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
agetty(8) says: --noclear Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name (the screen is normally cleared).
So try that and let me know if it works (don't remove -i). I'm also interested in this but I can't reboot atm.
I can't reboot either, but I'm pretty sure you're right. I suppose the --noclear is new and was not "advertised" Thanks Jorge
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
I can't reboot either, but I'm pretty sure you're right. I suppose the --noclear is new and was not "advertised"
Thanks
Jorge
Not sure if someone already posted this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980
Not sure if someone already posted this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980
That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK. "--noclear" is the option to use. J.A.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
Not sure if someone already posted this:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980
That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK. "--noclear" is the option to use.
Strange, it doesnt work for me :( here is what I have in /etc/inittab: c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear -8 -s 38400 tty1 linux
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM, SanskritFritz <sanskritfritz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
Not sure if someone already posted this:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980
That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK. "--noclear" is the option to use.
Strange, it doesnt work for me :( here is what I have in /etc/inittab:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear -8 -s 38400 tty1 linux
Can you try without the "-s"? (I will not pretend that I understand the issues with gettys, but I think the default, whatever this means, does not have the flag, only the 38400 argument.) J.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM, SanskritFritz <sanskritfritz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
Not sure if someone already posted this:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980
That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK. "--noclear" is the option to use.
Strange, it doesnt work for me :( here is what I have in /etc/inittab:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear -8 -s 38400 tty1 linux
Did you remember to delete the special characters from /etc/issue ? -t
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
Did you remember to delete the special characters from /etc/issue ?
Ah, you're right, I forgot about that. Now it works, thank you!
participants (9)
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cantabile
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Fons Adriaensen
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Jorge Almeida
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Karol Blazewicz
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Martti Kühne
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Patrick Burroughs
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Philipp Überbacher
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SanskritFritz
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Tom Gundersen