dmesg not working on new system

[Greg Barniskis]

Chris Maness wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Greg Barniskis wrote:
> 
>> Chris Maness wrote:
>>> I just installed 6.1 and upgraded to RELEASE-p1.  The command dmesg 
>>> is not displaying any kernel messages, any suggestions? 
>>
>> Suggests all is well?
>>
>> dmesg outputs stuff from the current system message buffer, which 
>> contains your boot messages right after booting but those can get 
>> flushed over time. Boot messages are saved to a file though, for 
>> reference.
>>
>> more /var/run/dmesg.boot
>>

> 
> I just thought it was strange because every other system I have it at 
> least displays dmesg.boot if there is no other messages.  Is this new 
> behavior for 6.1?

Not new behavior. A dmesg on any of my running systems (4.x, 5.x) 
returns nothing after a time. You were just catching it before the 
buffer was flushed. I don't know what triggers that, and it is 
possible that the trigger/timing of it may have changed in 6.x (and 
as always, YMMV).

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