Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 984666
dmesg --human is incompatible with --follow
Last modified: 2015-01-15 10:17:29 EST
Description of problem: I love the new human output. I use the following alias: alias dmesg='dmesg --human' However, I found out that it doesn't work correctly with --follow. dmesg --human --follow switches me in to some weird pager mode, where I can't hit End to see the end of stream, and where I can use PgDn but can't scroll to the very end (and all the keys lock at that moment, and I need to press Ctrl+C). Also no new kernel messages appear in that pager view. I can have nice human output and followed output, if I disable the pager: $ dmesg --human --follow --nopager I would expect that when both --human and --follow options are specified, the pager is automatically disabled. So that I can have nice formatting and follow feature at the same time, easily (and without disabling my aliases). If it is possible to keep the pager and follow, fine. But currently it seems to be utterly broken, or I don't know how to navigate that pager. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): util-linux-2.23.1-3.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. dmesg --human --follow 2. try to scroll to bottom and watch for new messages
One further improvement - if I run "journalctl --follow", it does not print the whole journal, but only the last 10 lines, and then it follows the log. It makes sense, because with --follow I don't usually want to read the whole log, but just wait for the new messages. Essentially it mimics "last -f" command. I believe the same behavior would be very convenient even for dmesg. I.e. instead of printing the whole log, just print the last 10 lines and follow the log.
The problem with pager and --follow has been fixed in upstream tree by commit 5042cdcf7718b192b8961d18cbb8106f54117a0f. Fedora package will updated asap. Thanks for your report!
Note that "just print the last 10 lines" is not so simple to implement. I'm going to think about it... we will see.
util-linux-2.23.2-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/util-linux-2.23.2-1.fc19
Package util-linux-2.23.2-1.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing util-linux-2.23.2-1.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-13967/util-linux-2.23.2-1.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
util-linux-2.23.2-4.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/util-linux-2.23.2-4.fc19
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