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#26 2011-06-29 10:29:52

thisoldman
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Re: Logging boot messages

I've been able to capture the last screen of console boot messages, after starting X, with this command:

sudo cat /dev/vcs1 > console_1.txt

Unfortunately, it records the screen text without line breaks.  Everything is on a single line.

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#27 2011-06-29 10:31:44

rwd
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Re: Logging boot messages

toad wrote:

(...)
Some queries:
1. What's it with all the ^[[?

They are color codes, like the ones you can set for bash output. No idea where they come from though.

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#28 2011-06-29 12:17:06

karol
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Re: Logging boot messages

rwd wrote:
toad wrote:

(...)
Some queries:
1. What's it with all the ^[[?

They are color codes, like the ones you can set for bash output. No idea where they come from though.

They come from initscripts.

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#29 2011-06-29 12:29:29

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Re: Logging boot messages

Pardon me for being dumb but what do I do with karol's script?

#!/bin/bash
sed 's#\^\[#\\033#g' /var/log/boot > 00blog
printf "$(cat 00blog) \n"

Please note you are talking to someone who has no IT background or scripting experience whatsoever, i.e. the ideal answer would be: you put it <there> like <this> smile

Many thanks in advance to the kind soul who takes pity on me...


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#30 2011-06-29 13:13:12

karol
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Re: Logging boot messages

toad wrote:

Pardon me for being dumb but what do I do with karol's script?

#!/bin/bash
sed 's#\^\[#\\033#g' /var/log/boot > 00blog
printf "$(cat 00blog) \n"

Please note you are talking to someone who has no IT background or scripting experience whatsoever, i.e. the ideal answer would be: you put it <there> like <this> smile

Many thanks in advance to the kind soul who takes pity on me...

Just save is to a file (say, ~/toadboot), make it executable (chmod +x ~/toadboot) and run (assuming you're in your ~, './toadboot' will do).

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#31 2011-06-29 20:10:57

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Re: Logging boot messages

Cheers, karol.

And I suppose I could put it in /etc/rc.local so as to forego this arduous task? Or is there a niftier way of integrating it?


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#32 2011-06-29 20:21:43

karol
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Re: Logging boot messages

toad wrote:

Cheers, karol.

And I suppose I could put it in /etc/rc.local so as to forego this arduous task? Or is there a niftier way of integrating it?

But it doesn't even work right! It (/var/log/boot) doesn't log all the things it should, so I'm not sure you will see much benefit using it.

But sure, it's basically a two-liner so it definitely doesn't have to be a separate script.

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#33 2011-06-30 01:27:41

x33a
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Re: Logging boot messages

toad wrote:

Cheers, karol.

And I suppose I could put it in /etc/rc.local so as to forego this arduous task? Or is there a niftier way of integrating it?

Since it can be run after the boot, you can put it in ~/.xinitrc instead of rc.local, as that would be easier to maintain.

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#34 2011-06-30 07:10:06

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Re: Logging boot messages

B.t.w. most of the color codes are gone when you change USECOLOR="yes" to USECOLOR="no" in /etc/rc.conf .

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#35 2011-07-02 19:34:45

jocom
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Re: Logging boot messages

Somehow the contents of /var/log/boot can't be directly parsed by 'less -{Rr}'
Anyone has explanations for that?

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#36 2011-07-05 13:12:05

alem0lars
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Re: Logging boot messages

The ^[ characters in the /var/log/boot file aren't the escape character \e (or ^[).

Last edited by alem0lars (2011-07-05 13:12:34)

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#37 2011-08-21 19:05:09

karol
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Re: Logging boot messages

Can you test if this commit http://projects.archlinux.org/initscrip … 9d8a516abc clears the boot log properly?

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#38 2012-11-17 17:40:59

r0b0t
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Re: Logging boot messages

For not opening a new thread I have bootlogd package installed which worked just fine before I switched to systemd, now the daemon doesn't run and systemctl doesn't include it:

# systemctl enable bootlogd
Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory

furthermore lack of a rc.d script makes me ask  "How can I make it run just when the system starts?"

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#39 2012-11-25 21:20:46

knedlyk
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Re: Logging boot messages

r0b0t wrote:

furthermore lack of a rc.d script makes me ask  "How can I make it run just when the system starts?"

Just read about journalctl

journalctl --help

In your case run

journalctl -b

and find all needed info about boot process.

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