kernel parm quiet

[John Summerfield]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Brian C. Huffman wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 12:27 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>>> Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>>>>>> Also, does quiet affect display of shutdown messages?  Not seeing 
>>>>>> any with upstart.
>>>>> I see this too. Seems to be upstart quirk/bug. Can you file a bug 
>>>>> report please?
>>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not certain this is entirely bad behavior.  I guess it depends on
>>> what upstart intends to accomplish.  Fedora in general is (in my
>>> opinion) rightly moving in a direction of showing less technically
>>> informational messages (RHGB) that might confuse the less technically
>>> saavy users (or convertees).
>>
>> It's a fair bugger to debug problems though. I turn it off.
>>
>> U: My system won't boot
>> HD: What messages do you see?
>> U: None.
> 
> Won't happen since RHGB automatically falls back to showing details the 
> moment any daemon fails to start.

Kernel messages?
Before RHGB starts?
Slow boots? It's not happened to me in some years[1], but I recall 20 
minutes and more when there was no functioning DNS or substitute. 
Sendmail in particular was notorious.

btw Is it intended behaviour that boot.log be empty? I was going to 
check to see what's in it, and all are empty - and it's less than an 
hour since I last rebooted.


[1] I've read of sendmail problems long since I stopped having them; I 
attribute most of the difference to my better networks than than,  and 
my reluctance to use sendmail. However, ntpdate on Ubuntu Warty took 
ages when the network was down.





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