boot.log (2)

boot.log (2)

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Found my missing boot.log by doing an strace:

strace -omytest -f -e trace=file dosemu

In mytest there is a line

594   open("/tmp/dosemu.qvalfr/boot.log",
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3

So boot.log is somewhere in /tmp, not in ~/.dosemu -- and it
*disappears* when (x)dosemu terminates. That's why I couldn't find
it; I can see it in another VC/xterm only while (x)dosemu is still
running.

Any idea what could cause this?

Regards, Jan

Re: boot.log (2)

[Bart Oldeman]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

> Found my missing boot.log by doing an strace:
>
> strace -omytest -f -e trace=file dosemu
>
> In mytest there is a line
>
> 594   open("/tmp/dosemu.qvalfr/boot.log",
> O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3
>
> So boot.log is somewhere in /tmp, not in ~/.dosemu -- and it
> *disappears* when (x)dosemu terminates. That's why I couldn't find
> it; I can see it in another VC/xterm only while (x)dosemu is still
> running.
>
> Any idea what could cause this?

are you sure that you're not using Debian's dosemu script
(ie. /usr/bin/dosemu installed by Debian)? It does:

workdir=$(mktemp -u ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/dosemu.XXXXXX | tr A-Z a-z)
...
LOG=$workdir/boot.log

which explains what you get. If you use DOSEMU 1.1.x you should be using
the supplied dosemu script (which make install puts in /usr/local/bin/ by
default)

Bart

Re: boot.log (2)

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Bart Oldeman wrote:

> are you sure that you're not using Debian's dosemu script
> (ie. /usr/bin/dosemu installed by Debian)?

Many thanks, this was it. I had a sort of mixed system running
which worked in the past but not now. I've now completely
undebianized it (I hope).

I've still not got the sound back in Wolf3d (although it works in
everything else). Any suggestions welcome. At least I can now
produce boot.logs...

Regards, Jan