Bug#597467: sysvinit-utils: [BOOTLOG] All messages are not saved

[Mark Hindley]

Control: tags -1 upstream

Frédéric,

Thanks for this and apologies for the excessive delay.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:33:27AM +0200, Frédéric MASSOT wrote:
> Package: sysvinit-utils
> Version: 2.88dsf-12
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There are messages that appears on the console during
> the boot which are not recorded anywhere.
> 
> In the log file "/var/log/boot" it is only the messages
> of starts of rc scripts, the warning and errors are not
> recorded.
> 
> I see messages on the console that correspond to
> rc scripts, but they are neither in the log file
> "/var/log/boot" or syslog.
> 
> Below the contents of the file "/var/log/boot",
> from what I see on the screen there are missing
> messages from udev and other rc scripts.

I wonder if the missing messages are on stderr and  are being missed by
bootlogd.

Jesse,

Do you have any thoughts here?

Thanks

Mark