[arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab: c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux I added the -i to prevent clearing the

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Patrick Burroughs
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab:

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs celticmad...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs celticmad...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread cantabile
On 09/27/2011 10:33 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab: c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:12:29PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now). Also, if you want to see what happened during boot, there is /var/log/boot Something remotely related for

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-09-27 12:55:51 +0200: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:12:29PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now). Also, if you want to see what

Re: [arch-general] Recently orphaned [community] packages, TUs should take a look if they might be interested in adopting them.

2011-09-27 Thread Xavier D.
Hello, If no TU interested in celt, I'm interested to maintain it in AUR. On 09/26/2011 11:19 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Hi, I recently went over all my packages in community, and have decided to orphan the following due to lack of interest and because I haven't used them in a long time celt

Re: [arch-general] Recently orphaned [community] packages, TUs should take a look if they might be interested in adopting them.

2011-09-27 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 09/27/2011 02:51 PM, Xavier D. wrote: Hello, If no TU interested in celt, I'm interested to maintain it in AUR. On 09/26/2011 11:19 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Hi, I recently went over all my packages in community, and have decided to orphan the following due to lack of interest and

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Martti Kühne
hey this quick and minimalistic patch [1] to rc.{sysinit,single,multi} here works to capture almost the complete boot output in per-script manner in /bootlog. don't forget to mkdir /bootlog when you apply it. use less -r to read them, and don't be irritated, it will change the results for

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs celticmad...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages Thank you. It seems the behaviour of agetty changed. The --noclear option appears to be the relevant one. I think it wasn't there before, but I may be wrong. Jorge

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages Thank you. It seems the behaviour of agetty changed. The --noclear option appears to be the relevant one. I think it wasn't there before, but I may

Re: [arch-general] Recently orphaned [community] packages, TUs should take a look if they might be interested in adopting them.

2011-09-27 Thread Ray Rashif
On 27 September 2011 20:50, Sven-Hendrik Haase s...@lutzhaase.com wrote: On 09/27/2011 02:51 PM, Xavier D. wrote: Hello, If no TU interested in celt, I'm interested to maintain it in AUR. On 09/26/2011 11:19 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Hi, I recently went over all my packages in community,

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now). Yes, that's really the point. Clearing or not the terminal, depending on the flag, seems the proper way to do it, rather than editing /etc/issue. Also, if you want to

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:30 AM, cantabile cantabile.d...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/27/2011 10:33 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: agetty(8) says: --noclear   Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name   (the screen is normally cleared). So try that and let me know if it works

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: I can't reboot either, but I'm pretty sure you're right. I suppose the --noclear is new and was not advertised Thanks Jorge Not sure if someone already posted this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
Not sure if someone already posted this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980 That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK. --noclear is the option to use. J.A.

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread SanskritFritz
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if someone already posted this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980 That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK. --noclear is the option to use. Strange, it doesnt work for me :( here is what I

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM, SanskritFritz sanskritfr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if someone already posted this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980 That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK.

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM, SanskritFritz sanskritfr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if someone already posted this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25980 That's it. I already rebooted and it comes out OK.

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

2011-09-27 Thread SanskritFritz
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: Did you remember to delete the special characters from /etc/issue ? Ah, you're right, I forgot about that. Now it works, thank you!