Bug 737983

Summary:	Console output cutting out last page of service startup listing.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Dex <vladimir.stys>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Version:	5.7	CC:	initscripts-maint-list, notting
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Description Dex 2011-09-13 14:46:10 UTC

Description of problem:
When RHEL5.X boots, console displays (runlevel 3) informations about loading kernel, modules and then service. The last page from service is cut out right before login screen apears and therefore cant be view afrewards.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
init ?

How reproducible:
every non-gui boot

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot to RL3

Actual results:
last page cut-out

Expected results:
all displayed informatin will stay in the buffer

Additional info:
none

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2011-09-13 14:56:14 UTC

You can set '--noclear' as an option to mingetty in inittab - does that help?

Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2013-03-11 12:50:21 UTC

Using --noclear should fix this issue and there was no response for more than a year so closing this as notabug.