On Wed, 2024-07-24 at 09:15 -0600, home user via users wrote: > question #1 > How do I find these "teal" boot messages so I can actually see what > they're saying? "System Log", "Logs", "vim", "more", "less", "cat", > "gvim" all do not show color. (I'm using gnome.)
Those colours will be set by ANSI escape codes buried in the text (the escape character, square brackets, numbers and semi-colons). You can use the less command with the -R option to have it interpret the codes and show the coloured text in colour. e.g. less -R boot.log If you just did "less boot.log", you would see the escape sequences, which can be messy to read through. You may see a difference in colours now versus then, depending on how the terminal was running. There are 8 basic terminal colours, plus another control sequence which alters their brightness. In 8 colour mode, you only ever see 8 colours (e.g. dark red and bright red are both just red). In general, [ OK ] messages are in green [FAILED] are in red. I can't recall any other colours in the boot-up messages. The "dmesg" command can be used with -L option to give a colourised output of what it's cached since boot up (which includes very recent information, too -- it's on-going). Here, I just see green timestamps, yellow headings (for the sake of a description), and white data after the heading. Some of the white data is bright white (bolded), for important info. Note that there's often a lot of unimportant error messages in logs: Things it tried that can't work now, but are retried later on and succeed. Things it tried that are optional and not essential. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
