On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 13:11 +0100, Alain Spineux wrote: > On Nov 11, 2007 9:32 AM, Robert Slade <centos at likley.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am still having problems with my desktop system. Having updated it > > from 4 to 5, I now have problems with the logs. Neither boot.log nor > > dmesg has any data post the update. syslog appears to be normal in that > > it starts when it should but does not show any errors. It looks like > > whatever is supposed to write to the logs during initial boot is not > > doing so, but I am not sure where to look to see what is wrong. > > Look for some "*.rpmsave" files and specialy in /etc. > Check the integrity of related packages: > rpm -V sysklogd initscripts > > Regards Thanks for the reply. rpm -V sysklogd initscripts gives: ..5....T c /etc/inittab Which if I read things correctly is to be expected. And locate *.rpmsave /etc/X11/X.rpmsave /etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/local.adl.rpmsave /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap.rpmsave /etc/selinux/targeted/booleans.rpmsave /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.rpmsave /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn-applet.rpmsave Looking at these files does not lead me to anything I can recognise as being a problem. Regards Rob