Problematic boot messages

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:52 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 March 2006 10:21, Andy Green wrote:
> >
> > Maybe scroll lock can help with the boot spew problem.
> >
> It didn't, and nore does Pause/Break.  However, I managed to catch that it was 
> something to do with atop, and the mass of message at the bottom concerned 
> system monitoring, so I think the whole lot is connected.  /etc/atop contains 
> atop.daily and atop.24hours, and atop can be started manually.  I wonder why 
> it isn't starting at bootup?
> 
> Anne

Anne,

There should be something /var/log/messages if you are getting "fails"
during boot.  It's less than obvious, though.

Bob...