On 7/24/24 5:20 PM, John Horne via users wrote:
On Wed, 2024-07-24 at 14:08 -0600, home user via users wrote:
On 7/24/24 9:40 AM, Joe Wulf via users wrote:
1. Look through the output of 'sudo dmesg' or just 'dmesg' when logged in
as root. Another option is to review '/var/log/boot.log', assuming it is
accumulating records when the system is booting (check
/etc/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf). 'journalctl' might also be a viable option
(see man pages for each of these).
I had already looked at both boot.log and the boot log file for today. No
hint as to which entries were teal-colored during boot. dmesg does some
colorization, but it was different than what I saw during boot. Likewise
journalctl. So I am unable to distinguish messages that I should pay
attention to. It might help to know that I am not a sysadmin.
There is no /etc/rsyslog/ directory. rsyslog.conf is in /etc/.
In general, I wouldn't know why a 'teal' color is just now appearing for
certain boot messages. However, a few thoughts come to mind: Your monitor
is changing performance, or maybe the graphics card for your system is
changing its performance (i.e. degrading)... maybe. Or something
configuration-wise was done locally to your system, or a new RPM package
made an untoward adjustment.
Not a monitor issue: everything looks as it should when using the work
station.
Not a graphics card issue; same reason.
I also checked memory (MemTest86+); no hint of trouble.
I also checked the hard drive with GSmartControl; no hint of trouble.
I have no real doubt that the teal coloration is deliberate color coding like
that of "ls", but with a separate or different colorization scheme.
As for catching the messages visually, consider using your cell and
recording the video of the boot cycle and then reviewing it during playback
to //maybe// stop the motion and see something which otherwise goes by too
fast. I've done this before and its sometimes valuable, and othertimes the
screen clears/scrolls milliseconds after the necessary message. But, a
combination of cellphone video and reviewing dmesg output might bring you
very close to seeing messages which are relevant to your issue.
I have neither cell phone nor camcorder nor camera. I have no way to capture
the boot screens.
2. Likely your bash user session has 'dircolors' enabled, and especially
via aliases configured via ${HOME}/.bashrc. You can modify that file to
suit your tastes (suggest making a backup copy first).
R,
-Joe
On Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 11:16:21 AM EDT, home user via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(f39 workstation; 6.9.9-100.fc39.x86_64)
Since last patching my stand-alone workstation last Thursday (July 18),
I've been seeing messages during boot that are colored some strange color
between green and blue (I'm calling it "teal"). Other boot message text is
gray. I don't recall seeing "teal" messages before during boot. The
messages scroll by too fast to catch what they're saying.
question #1
How do I find these "teal" boot messages so I can actually see what they're
saying? "System Log", "Logs", "vim", "more", "less", "cat", "gvim" all do
not show color. (I'm using gnome.)
question #2
When I do "ls", the output is colored:
* some bluish color for directories;
* magenta for image and video files;
* green for "ordinary" (text, LibreOffice, PDF, etc.) data files;
* bold green for executable files;
and so on. The colors mean something. What does the "teal" in the boot
logs mean?
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Hi,
If it's any help, then I see the same thing - a teal colour for some boot
messages. I just took it as a startup change between Fedora 39 and 40.
(BTW, 'teal' seems a good description of the colour.)
I'm at f39, so it's not something new to f40.
If it helps, the teal messages seem to be multi-line (long).
I'll see if I can catch a message or two next time I boot up. The coloured
services are probably going to be found in systemd somewhere.
That could help. It would help me know what to look for in the logs.
John.
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John Horne | Senior Operations Analyst | Technology and Information Services
University of Plymouth | Drake Circus | Plymouth | Devon | PL4 8AA | UK
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