F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

stan gryt2 at q.com
Mon Nov 15 17:42:17 UTC 2010


On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:25:08 -0600
"Ryan O'Hara" <rohara at redhat.com> wrote:

> Those messages on the console (with the timestamp) are from
> dmesg. These are visible on the console in F14 because rc.sysinit no
> longer sets the dmesg logging level, thus all messages from dmesg end
> up being written to the console. See dmesg(1) for more
> information. If you have an older Fedora machine handy you can look at
> rc.sysinit where you will find the following:
> 
> Fix console loglevel
> if [ -# n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then
>       /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL
> fi
> 
> This is missing from F14.
> 
> I'm of the opinion that this should be fixed. Printing dmesg messages
> to the console by default is too much.
> 
> I was able to get things back to normal by adding 'dmesg -n 3' to
> rc.sysinit. If there is a better way, please let me know. Also, if
> there is a compelling reason that this was removed from F14, I'd be
> interested to know what that reason is.

Thank you for posting this.

I used the above with an else in case $LOGLEVEL wasn't defined.  I
assume that is the reason it was dropped, but if it still exists, I'll
use it.

#Fix console loglevel
if [ -# n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then
      /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL
else
      /bin/dmesg -n 3
fi


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