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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:29:37 -0600
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Subject: Re: Bug#561764: some warnings fly off screen and are not saved in
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On 12/20/2009 11:39 AM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> OK, via
> $ zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686|strings|less
> I think I found one of the messages I saw:
> SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version
> which is in /sbin/udevadm ... bug #561229 perhaps.
>
> However, what I'm saying is "how bad it is that there be any messages
> that fly off the screen at boot and are not also 'remembered into some
> log file' one can read later?".
>
> Either remember all messages into those /var/log/ files, or remember
> none. Remembering 95% makes one think that they see all of them.
>
> There is some step so early in the boot process that recording has not
> been turned on yet. That step is making error messages that fly off the
> screen... with only one small laptop one is not going to be able to see these
> messages. One should not be required to attach other equipment to see them.

Not sure why this is CCed to LKML, the kernel isn't responsible for 
logging anything to files..