Empty boot.log

[Giovanni P. Tirloni]

On Oct 10, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

> On 10/10/09 20:09, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
>> On Oct 10, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>>> I see that rawhide's boot.log is empty. What magic makes it write  
>>> the log
>>> when booting?
>>
>> From what I can tell, that issue has been fixed. I'm running the  
>> latest
>> kernel from Rawhide (2.6.31.1-56.fc12) and it works fine.
>>
>> Plymouth is the component responsible for recording those messages in
>> /var/log/boot.log when the root fs becomes writeable. You should  
>> check
>> if plymouthd is running.
>>
>> Packages:
>>
>> kernel-PAE-2.6.31-0.125.4.2.rc5.git2.fc12.i686
>> plymouth-0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.7.fc12.i686
>>
>
> Same plymouth but:
> kernel-2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686
>
> Your kernel seems to be different from the latest rawhide kernel  
> which mine
> is. Could it be that this issue is fixed in your version of the  
> kernel and
> not in mine?

My fault, I have the same kernel (wrong copy/paste).

# uname -a
Linux vm-fedora12.gtirloni 2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Sep 29  
16:16:16 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

-Giovanni