bootloogd does'nt work in 9.04

[Tom H]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:12 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 12/24/2009 01:41 PM, Tom H wrote:
> ...
>>> $ cat /etc/default/bootlogd
>>> # Run bootlogd at startup ?
>>> BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes
>>>
>>> Edit back to BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No if you'd like to not have bootlogd run
>>> at startup.
>>>
>>> Start the daemon:
>>> $ sudo update-rc.d bootlogd defaults
>>> update-rc.d: warning: bootlogd start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5) do not
>>> match LSB Default-Start values (S)
>>> update-rc.d: warning: bootlogd stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not
>>> match LSB Default-Stop values (none)
>>>  Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/bootlogd ...
>>>   /etc/rc0.d/K20bootlogd -> ../init.d/bootlogd
>>>   /etc/rc1.d/K20bootlogd -> ../init.d/bootlogd
>>>   /etc/rc6.d/K20bootlogd -> ../init.d/bootlogd
>>>   /etc/rc2.d/S20bootlogd -> ../init.d/bootlogd
>>>   /etc/rc3.d/S20bootlogd -> ../init.d/bootlogd
>>>   /etc/rc4.d/S20bootlogd -> ../init.d/bootlogd
>>>   /etc/rc5.d/S20bootlogd -> ../init.d/bootlogd
>>>
>>> Not sure about the warning issues. I already have it running on this
>>> system from previously & the above is the output from the new karmic system.
>>
>> I am quite sure that a developer wrote on launchpad that bootlogd
>> would only be fixed for Karmic+2!
>>
>
> Yeah. It doesn't actually seem to be working properly; seems like a
> buffer issue, as when I boot with just 'nosplash' (remove quiet splash).
> I only get partial data:
>
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:50 2009:  * Starting NTP server ntpd
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:50 2009:  * Starting DenyHosts denyhosts       ^[[80G  * Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.31-17-generic       ^[[80G  *  nvidia (96.43.13)...
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:52 2009:    ...done.
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:53 2009:  *  vboxdrv (3.1.2)...
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:53 2009:    ...done.
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:53 2009:  *  vboxnetadp (3.1.2)...
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:53 2009:    ...done.
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:54 2009:  *  vboxnetflt (3.1.2)...
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:54 2009:    ...done.
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:54 2009:  * Starting Samba daemons       ^[[80G  ^[[33m*^[[39;49m Speech-dispatcher configured for user sessions
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:55 2009:  * Starting VirtualBox kernel module       ^[[80G  * Starting VirtualBox host networking       ^[[80G  * Starting Network connection manager wicd       ^[[80G  * Starting internet superserver xinetd       ^[[80G  * Starting DHCP D-Bus daemon dhcdbd
>> Thu Dec 24 14:05:57 2009:  * Enabling additional executable binary formats binfmt-support       ^[[80G  * Checking battery state...       ^[[80G    ...done.
>
> Ah well... I reckon it's time to open the egg nog anyway :-)

I just enabled bootlogd and
/var/log/boot is empty
/var/log/boot~ is minimal and useless
:(