On December 20, 2018 4:41:26 AM UTC, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >Howdy, > >I just installed a new video card. After a couple weeks of USPS >dragging it around, it finally came in. Anyway, I got it installed and >was booting up. I noticed somewhere between the kernel part and it >going through the runlevel part, there was something that failed. I >saw >a little red colored text and the word failed but I found one bad thing >about a really fast CPU. It scrolls by so fast, I can't tell what it >is. It is almost a blur when it scrolls up. It's not a service >because >rc-status shows all green. I'm not sure that lists everything tho >since >it seems a little light on the number of services. > >At some point way back, I recall there being a logger that picks up the >area between when dmesg is logging and when syslog or friends start >logging to the message file. I think this is where the error is. I >can't find tool now. I also can't find anything else in /var/log >either. Am I wrong on having this or did it die off in the tree and >got >removed? If so, is there something that picks up that area of the boot >up process as far as errors go? My system seems to work fine but I'd >like to know what that error was. It may cause a problem at some point >and could even be the problem with that random reboot I had in another >thread. > >Thanks. > >Dale > >:-) :-) > >P. S. I did reseat all the power cables to the mobo while I was >swapping video cards. Hoping that may help with that weird reboot >thing >I had going on. BTW, it hasn't happened since the one I started the >thread about either. Weird.
In "rc.conf" there is an option to log to /var/log/rc.log or similar. Not near a working system, so can't check actual option. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
