dmesg gave me the output from the bootup sequence but nothing beyond that. I dug through the files in /var/log/ and found that the stuff that flashed quickly between the time I entered my selection in Xtart and the time the window manager appeared was in /var/log/kdm.log and it appears to be canned text that doesn't change because the date on the file is Oct 1 which, if I'm not mistaken coincides with the time I started messing around with changing display managers and ultimately booting to runlevel 3.
As for the errors that appear to be generated while the window manager is running and are there waiting for me when I go back to text mode, I can't find them in any of the files. For example, when I exit Pekwm, there are some PyPanel errors that contain the path to my Python install. When I do a grep -r python /var/log/ The only hits I get back are from rpmdrake logs from the day I first installed the Python devel package. Anyway, I guess it's not that big of a deal if the majority of that stuff was canned text from kdm.log (although I'm curious as to what triggers that to be displayed and what it all means). Hoyt Bailey said: > On Wednesday 06 October 2004 07:01, David B. Carter wrote: >> I don't know if my subject line made any sense, but what I'm trying >> to do is this: I recently switched from booting in runlevel 5 to >> runlevel 3. I'm using Xtart to give me a choice of window managers. >> Since I started doing that, I am noticing several errors and warnings >> fly by in text mode before the screen switches into graphics mode and >> launches my window manager of choice. When I log out of my window >> manager session, some of the info (plus additional output generated >> during my session) is visible on the screen, but much of it has >> already scrolled off the top. >> >> I want to know how I can capture all that info so that I can look at >> it after my session is over. I tried using the "pause" key to pause >> before the screen switches to graphics mode, but no dice. So, is >> there a way that I can either page up and see the text mode output >> that has already scrolled up or redirect the output to a file or >> something like that? >> >> Thanks. > Try 'dmesg'.
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