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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:11 am    Post subject: [SOLVED] How to see messages running on screen? Reply with quote

Hi,

In case of many messages running on screen, like during booting,
or for instance, after command: 'emerge --search app-name' -
How can I see all messages, but not just the last ones?
In case of booting - they entirely disappear...


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, one option is to pipe output into pager like `more` or `less`.
If you want to be able to scroll back to previous output in text mode terminal (not terminal emulator) you have to enable scrollback buffer (or something like that) in kernel and then recompile it
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

<shift><page up>
<shift><page down>

Code:
"some command" > "file"
yields blank (or almost blank) screen with commands output saved in "file"

Code:
"some command" | tee "file"
output shows in screen and saved in "file"

Code:
dmesg
displays boot messages
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The "tee" command will handle redirection once the system is running, but for
the initial boot sequence there's really only dmesg.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, what a nice responds...

I hope all my problems will be solved that elegant way :D

Thanks you all

EDIT: what editor from GUI open dmesg file?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

To be able to see the last screen output before the login prompt, you can tell agetty to not clear the screen in /etc/inittab.
Code:
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux

For the complete kernel and services logs, everything is in the /var/log directory.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pmam wrote:
what editor from GUI open dmesg file?


From the gui, open a term and type "dmesg|less"

Or if using syslog "less /var/log/dmesg" to see only the boot stuff (minus a few things that don't use the dmesg buffer)
or "less /var/log/messages" depending on how syslog is set up.

For ebuild stuff /var/log/portage/elog
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anon-E-moose wrote:
From the gui, open a term and type "dmesg|less"

Don't forget

Code:
dmesg --human (-H)

for a similar effect, with some extra perks as a bonus. ^^


Edit:

Forgot to mention that it's (at the time of writing) not available for in stable, as explained below.

Sorry about that!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 2:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do not see the --human (-H) option in the manual and the help (-h) of dmesg. The option do not work. Do I have to set a USE flag to util-linux to have this option?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 2:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Logicien wrote:
I do not see the --human (-H) option in the manual and the help (-h) of dmesg. The option do not work. Do I have to set a USE flag to util-linux to have this option?

Logicien ... no, you need >= 2.23.x (so the current ~arch ... 2.24.1-r2).

v2.23-ReleaseNotes wrote:
- supports new command line options --bytes and --human

best ... khay
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 6:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

How can I change to 2.23 in order to have --human - ?
I am quite new in gentoo so please try to be more detailed.

EDIT: BTW - I see that I promoted from 'noob' to 'Tux's lil' helper' -
I am quite proud from the great honor :D - however - What does it mean?
Translation, please...

Thanks
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

pmam wrote:
How can I change to 2.23 in order to have --human? I am quite new in gentoo so please try to be more detailed.

pman ... you would "keyword" the package like so ...

/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
Code:
=sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2

... the "=" states, equal to but not above, a "sys-apps/util-linux" would keyword all packages regardless of versioning, a ">=" would equate to greater than or equal to. The Gentoo Handbook section on mixing software branches explains this in more detail.

pmam wrote:
EDIT: BTW - I see that I promoted from 'noob' to 'Tux's lil' helper' - I am quite proud from the great honor :D - however - What does it mean? Translation, please...

It's asigned based on post number. "Tux" is the mascot of linux (a penguin), "lil" being an abreviation of "little" ... and helper ... its a reference to Santa (who also is said to have "little helpers").

best ... khay
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dear Khayyam,

Thanks for your helpful response!

I saw many times this 'Tux' and now I understand what is stand for... :D

I am quite disappointed to find out that 'my new title' is based on post number, but not on my significantly improvement knowledge... :lol:
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