Bug 746517

Summary: F16 Beta -- boot.log empty
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Robin R. Price II <rprice>
Component: plymouthAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: brackbillbruce, fedora, iarlyy, jonathan, lpoetter, notting, plautrba, rstrode, stanley.king
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Description Robin R. Price II 2011-10-16 19:50:42 UTC
Description of problem:

Getting errors during my boot process.  I know the booting is different in F16 than it was in the past, but looking indo boot.log shows nothing



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

[root@laptop log]# ls -lah boot.log 
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct 16 14:50 boot.log

[root@laptop log]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Fedora release 16 (Verne)

[root@laptop log]# uname -a
Linux laptop 3.1.0-0.rc9.git0.0.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 5 15:30:54 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install Fedora 16
2.  Review /var/log/boot.log
3.
  
Actual results:

Empty log file


Expected results:

System services logged into boot.log for troubleshooting.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2011-10-17 15:36:16 UTC
By default, services all log to syslog. We should probably decide what that means for boot.log.

Comment 2 Robin R. Price II 2011-10-17 20:47:49 UTC
Bill,

Yeah I noticed that.  And given the past experiences with boot.log being empty bugs, lets figure that out before RHEL7 releases.  We can only assume the happy bugs about it being empty we will see.  ;)

~rp

Comment 3 Stan King 2011-10-25 17:22:22 UTC
I see this too in Fedora 16 Beta, but not consistently.  I sometimes get a valid /var/log/boot.log file.  It can even survive a re-boot without being over-written.

Comment 4 Bruce Brackbill 2011-12-09 23:19:02 UTC
   "It can even survive a re-boot without being over-written."

Yes this is happening for me.  

On every boot I see the line: "dracut Warning: e2fsck returned with 1" in my boot.log and I was trying to figure out why touch /forcefsck was not dealing with it.

Well I should of paid more attention to the screen as it was booting because "dracut Warning: e2fsck returned with 1" doesn't really exist in the current boot. The boot.log is old and nothing new is being written to it.

This is a fresh install of F16 final ( not and upgrade ).  I also see some others on fedoraforum etc. enquiring about this bug.

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