On Saturday 25 July 2009 08:33:01 pm Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:49 PM, David C. Rankin<drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Listmates,
Seems like a simple question, but I've searched /var/log and can't find a file that contains the boot history showing all the "fail" messages during boot. For some reason after the latest update, my i686 box showed a half dozen or so "fail" messages. I need to find the log of what died.
The upside to this? This was my i686 box that would no longer start kde after the next-previous set of updates. Now kde4 starts fine again.
Whatever failed can't be that critical because the box is functioning fine, but I still want to find out what failed. If the file is in /var/log, then I just flat missed it. I thought it would be daemons.log, but I found no fail messages.
This might not actually be logged anywhere now that I think about it. To devs- am I wrong, or maybe we should add some syslog foo in here so this stuff is more easily traceable?
I personally disable the VC on tty1 in inittab on all machines so that no console overwrites the boot screen.
Nope, not logged anywhere. Those messages, however, are arch messages. The daemon itself that fails should write its output somewhere.
If you just want a list of what isn't running, you can always look in... hmm whatever the dir is... /var/run/daemons I think, and compare that to rc.conf.
syslogging this is acceptable if someone wants to supply a patch
Thanks all, I found it. For some reason kdm was crapping out. Really strange. Weeks ago, I learned that kdm doesn't belong in the DAEMONS LINE and moved it to inittab. Then for some reason something changed with the 7/22 updates that caused X to respawn too fast. After the last update, the failed messages were from kdm. After working on it a bit more, I finally arrived at: x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon and all seems to be working well now. I need to use kdm for kde3 so I maintain my kdemod3 login capability from the greeter. So far so good with this setup. Anybody else have a better way? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com