On 2025-02-25 06:21, Mark Hindley wrote:
Control: tags -1 upstream
Frédéric,
Thanks for this and apologies for the excessive delay.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:33:27AM +0200, Frédéric MASSOT wrote:
Package: sysvinit-utils
Version: 2.88dsf-12
Severity: normal
Hi,
There are messages that appears on the console during
the boot which are not recorded anywhere.
In the log file "/var/log/boot" it is only the messages
of starts of rc scripts, the warning and errors are not
recorded.
I see messages on the console that correspond to
rc scripts, but they are neither in the log file
"/var/log/boot" or syslog.
Below the contents of the file "/var/log/boot",
from what I see on the screen there are missing
messages from udev and other rc scripts.
I wonder if the missing messages are on stderr and are being missed by
bootlogd.
Jesse,
Do you have any thoughts here?
I have a few thoughts. It's a little tricky to track down exactly what
is happening here without having a comparison between what is seen on
the screen and what is showing up in the boot log file. Knowing
something specific like "udev busying, waiting 30 seconds" was showing
up on the screen and not in the log would give us a starting point to
track down _why_ something is missing.
I suspect though your guess is correct. bootlogd, if I remember
correctly, logs anything sent to /dev/console. If a service or script is
sending information somewhere else (and it happens to be echoed to the
screen) then bootlogd would have no knowledge of it. Any program that
was echoing to stderr or directly to a TTY would possibly bypass
/dev/console and avoid having its output logged.
- Jesse
