Bug 737983 - Console output cutting out last page of service startup listing.
Summary: Console output cutting out last page of service startup listing.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: initscripts
Version: 5.7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Lukáš Nykrýn
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-09-13 14:46 UTC by Dex
Modified: 2013-03-11 12:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-03-11 12:50:21 UTC
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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.
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