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On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:38:01 GMT Michael wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:30:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Hello list, |
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> > I see that the kernel code to scroll the console has been stripped out |
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> > [1]. What do people use instead? |
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> > This loss is a nuisance while installing a new system, as I am still |
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> > trying to do on my old laptop. |
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> > 1. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/09/15/1824233&from=rss |
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> A relief to see I'm not alone in experiencing this problem - I thought I had |
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> misconfigured something on my systems. :-) |
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> A way around it would be to use screen or tmux and use their internal |
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> buffer. However, if you're already logged in a console and suddenly want to |
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> Shift+PageUp, then it would be too late. This suggestion won't help if you |
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> want to look at the rc scripts output as the system boots, but you can |
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> capture these separately in syslog. |
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It's a pain in the neck while trying to emerge a base system and being thrown |
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scores of lines of reasons why it can't be done, with the prime cause long |
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gone. I tried using "| tee 2>&1 > /tmp/file" and then viewing the file on |
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another vTTY, but there ought to be a neater way. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |