dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Maness
I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1. The command dmesg is not displaying any kernel messages, any suggestions? I am running a SCSI hard drive on this box too. Here is a snipit from the message log in case these issues have anything to do with it. Timecounter "TSC" frequency 66

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
Chris Maness wrote: I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1. The command dmesg is not displaying any kernel messages, any suggestions? Suggests all is well? dmesg outputs stuff from the current system message buffer, which contains your boot messages right after booting but those c

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Maness
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Greg Barniskis wrote: Chris Maness wrote: I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1. The command dmesg is not displaying any kernel messages, any suggestions? Suggests all is well? dmesg outputs stuff from the current system message buffer, which contains your

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
Chris Maness wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Greg Barniskis wrote: Chris Maness wrote: I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1. The command dmesg is not displaying any kernel messages, any suggestions? Suggests all is well? dmesg outputs stuff from the current system message buffer,

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris Maness wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Greg Barniskis wrote: >> >>> Chris Maness wrote: I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1. The command dmesg is not displaying any kernel messages, any suggestions? >>> >>> Suggests all

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Howells
On Monday 05 June 2006 19:08, Greg Barniskis wrote: > Not new behavior. A dmesg on any of my running systems (4.x, 5.x) > returns nothing after a time. You were just catching it before the > buffer was flushed. I don't know what triggers that, and it is > possible that the trigger/timing of it may

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris Maness wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Greg Barniskis wrote: Chris Maness wrote: I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1. The command dmesg is not displaying any kernel messages, any suggestions? Suggests all is w

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Maness
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris Maness wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Greg Barniskis wrote: Chris Maness wrote: I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1. The command dmesg is not displaying any kernel messages, any suggesti

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
Chris Maness wrote: Interesting. Does "dmesg -a" show anything different? Yes, it does, but why would it not show anything without the flag right after a reboot? Wierd. I almost suspect hard drive issues. OK, THAT does not seem normal. Sorry, didn't catch that detail at first. Right afte

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread doug
A couple of things you can try: turn on the all.log line in syslog.conf; and, mkae sure syslog.conf and newsyslog.conf match the source tree. If all that looks okay, do a boot verbose (I forget the syntax). If you are getting any warning or status messages that could cause this either the all.lo

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Maness
Is /var/run/dmesg.boot populated correctly? Yes What kinds of things are in the -a output? named error messages mostly (this is a name server) Same results booting with or without network attached? Haven't tried, but there are no messages displayed by dmesg (without a flag) at the time (a

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Maness
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, doug wrote: A couple of things you can try: turn on the all.log line in syslog.conf; and, mkae sure syslog.conf and newsyslog.conf match the source tree. If all that looks okay, do a boot verbose (I forget the syntax). If you are getting any warning or status messages tha

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread doug
I am assuming you do not have a serial console but yes check out 'man loader.conf'. I did not remember but got it pretty quickly by search 'boot+verbose'. The handbook is really pretty good these days. That said I have never tried the loader.conf option. On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Chris Maness wrot

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread doug
Belay my last response about loader.conf. I did not read that what does closely enough. Without a serial console, turning all all.log is the best I know how to do On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Chris Maness wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, doug wrote: A couple of things you can try: turn on the all.log lin

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Reko Turja
- Original Message - From: "Chris Maness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, it does, but why would it not show anything without the flag right after a reboot? Wierd. I almost suspect hard drive issues. I got the exactly same happen to me with 6.1-RELEASE updated just after 6.1 was release

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Maness
Reko Turja wrote: - Original Message - From: "Chris Maness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, it does, but why would it not show anything without the flag right after a reboot? Wierd. I almost suspect hard drive issues. I got the exactly same happen to me with 6.1-RELEASE updated just afte

Re: dmesg not working on new system

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Maness
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Belay my last response about loader.conf. I did not read that what does closely enough. Without a serial console, turning all all.log is the best I know how to do On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Chris Maness wrote: Looks like another reader had the same issue. I feel better abou