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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:55:25
Message-Id: 7866302.T7Z3S40VBb@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback by Michael
1 On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:38:01 GMT Michael wrote:
2 > On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:30:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > Hello list,
4 > >
5 > > I see that the kernel code to scroll the console has been stripped out
6 > > [1]. What do people use instead?
7 > >
8 > > This loss is a nuisance while installing a new system, as I am still
9 > > trying to do on my old laptop.
10 > >
11 > > 1. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/09/15/1824233&from=rss
12 >
13 > A relief to see I'm not alone in experiencing this problem - I thought I had
14 > misconfigured something on my systems. :-)
15 >
16 > A way around it would be to use screen or tmux and use their internal
17 > buffer. However, if you're already logged in a console and suddenly want to
18 > Shift+PageUp, then it would be too late. This suggestion won't help if you
19 > want to look at the rc scripts output as the system boots, but you can
20 > capture these separately in syslog.
21
22 It's a pain in the neck while trying to emerge a base system and being thrown
23 scores of lines of reasons why it can't be done, with the prime cause long
24 gone. I tried using "| tee 2>&1 > /tmp/file" and then viewing the file on
25 another vTTY, but there ought to be a neater way.
26
27 --
28 Regards,
29 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback Andreas Fink <finkandreas@×××.de>