On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:29:04 -0600 > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Grant Edwards >> <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > But, in the failures I've been seeing today, it's not getting to >> > agetty. The "clear screen and halt" happens at the "waiting for udev >> > events" step... >> >> FWIW I have also noticed on my machine that somewhere in the middle of >> the OpenRC boot process, the screen gets cleared. Haven't completely >> tracked it down yet. > > In /etc/inittab you need to change stuff like this > > c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux > > to this > > c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux --noclear > > > There's a clear elog about this at the end of the util-linux emerge, > perhaps you missed it
I already had that set. :) I'm not talking about clearing the screen at the login prompt; it clears mid-OpenRC during/after the udev step (as Grant also described), though in my case it does not halt but continues printing the rest of the OpenRC messages and eventually gets to the login prompt. I'm thinking it may be fbcondecor responsible for the blanking there. I'll need to experiment more with it.
