Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

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stan wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:25:08 -0600
> "Ryan O'Hara"<rohara@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
>> Those messages on the console (with the timestamp) are from
>> dmesg. These are visible on the console in F14 because rc.sysinit no
>> longer sets the dmesg logging level, thus all messages from dmesg end
>> up being written to the console. See dmesg(1) for more
>> information. If you have an older Fedora machine handy you can look at
>> rc.sysinit where you will find the following:
>>
>> Fix console loglevel
>> if [ -# n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then
>>        /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL
>> fi
>>
>> This is missing from F14.
>>
>> I'm of the opinion that this should be fixed. Printing dmesg messages
>> to the console by default is too much.
>>
>> I was able to get things back to normal by adding 'dmesg -n 3' to
>> rc.sysinit. If there is a better way, please let me know. Also, if
>> there is a compelling reason that this was removed from F14, I'd be
>> interested to know what that reason is.
>
> Thank you for posting this.
>
> I used the above with an else in case $LOGLEVEL wasn't defined.  I
> assume that is the reason it was dropped, but if it still exists, I'll
> use it.
>
> #Fix console loglevel
> if [ -# n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then
>        /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL
> else
>        /bin/dmesg -n 3
> fi

/bin/dmesg -n ${LOGLEVEL:-3}

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