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

Ryan O'Hara rohara at redhat.com
Mon Nov 15 18:53:40 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:29:27AM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 11/15/2010 09:42 AM, stan wrote:
> > 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 $LOGLEVEL
> > else
> >        /bin/dmesg -n 3
> > fi
> 
> Uh, the F13 version actually reads:
> 
> 	# Fix console loglevel
> 	if [ -n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then
> 	        /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL
> 	fi
> 
> "if [ -# n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then" is incorrect and will probably make the
> shell mark the line as an error.

Sorry. That error originated in my post. Assuming cut-and-paste error
on my part. Thanks for catching this.

Ryan



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