From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 5 18:09:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C35F16B274 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 18:09:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD7643D72 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 18:08:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k55I8stC008067; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 13:08:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <44847336.9050908@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:08:54 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Maness References: <44843B61.5050209@chrismaness.com> <448469D5.8060700@scls.lib.wi.us> <20060605105358.Q54670@ns1.internetinsite.com> In-Reply-To: <20060605105358.Q54670@ns1.internetinsite.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dmesg not working on new system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:09:04 -0000 Chris Maness wrote: > > > On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Greg Barniskis wrote: > >> Chris Maness wrote: >>> I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1. The command dmesg >>> is not displaying any kernel messages, any suggestions? >> >> Suggests all is well? >> >> dmesg outputs stuff from the current system message buffer, which >> contains your boot messages right after booting but those can get >> flushed over time. Boot messages are saved to a file though, for >> reference. >> >> more /var/run/dmesg.boot >> > > I just thought it was strange because every other system I have it at > least displays dmesg.boot if there is no other messages. Is this new > behavior for 6.1? Not new behavior. A dmesg on any of my running systems (4.x, 5.x) returns nothing after a time. You were just catching it before the buffer was flushed. I don't know what triggers that, and it is possible that the trigger/timing of it may have changed in 6.x (and as always, YMMV). -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348