Usability of new graphical boot process...
Bill Anderson
bill at noreboots.com
Fri Sep 26 22:11:03 UTC 2003
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 14:38, Derek P. Moore wrote:
> The new graphical boot process is purdy keen...
> However, it could use one little change to increase
> its overall usability.
>
> As the progess bar moves from left to right, the name
> of the service that is attempting to start is shown
> for a few seconds then faded away. This is nice
> eyecandy, but it's really inconvenient if a particular
> service is taking forever or hanging indefinately.
>
> If I'm not lucky enough to catch the name of the
> service in the few seconds before it fades away, I'll
> have no idea what's going wrong 'til I reboot and
> devote 100% of my attention to watching the names of
> the services before they fade away.
Did /var/log/bootlog go away??
Here is what mine said when things failed:
=============================
Sep 1 12:12:10 locutus sshd: succeeded
Sep 1 12:12:08 locutus network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
Sep 1 12:12:11 locutus crond: crond startup succeeded
Sep 1 12:12:12 locutus xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Sep 1 12:12:12 locutus anacron: anacron startup succeeded
Sep 1 13:18:46 locutus cupsd: cupsd: Child exited with status 1!
Sep 1 13:18:46 locutus cups: cupsd startup succeeded
Sep 1 13:18:58 locutus cups: cupsd startup succeeded
Sep 1 16:52:09 locutus postgresql: Starting postgresql service:
succeeded
Sep 5 11:47:40 locutus iptables: failed
Sep 5 11:47:40 locutus iptables: failed
Sep 5 11:47:41 locutus iptables: succeeded
Sep 6 22:22:58 locutus smb: smbd shutdown failed
Sep 6 22:22:58 locutus smb: nmbd shutdown failed
Sep 6 22:22:58 locutus smb: smbd startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:22:58 locutus smb: nmbd startup succeeded
Sep 6 22:23:38 locutus smb: smbd shutdown succeeded
===============================
I hope it didn't go away, I've got scripts that monitor that file and
email me if there were failures.
--
Bill Anderson
RHCE #807302597505773
bill at noreboots.com
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