On Nov 11, 2007 6:07 PM, Garrick Staples <garrick at usc.edu> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:11:48PM +0100, Alain Spineux alleged: > > 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 > > And "*.rpmnew" files. You will have a lot of .rpmnew files after an upgrade. For sure something to try. Did you upgrade your kernel or at least remake initrd files ? # man initrd > > And then there is "*.rpmorig", but those don't show up as often. > > > When you find .rpmsave files, that's a hint that a previous config may have been lost. > > When you find .rpmnew files, that's a hint that new configs may not be working. > When they differ, and you don't recognize the change as something you want to > keep, then 'mv' the .rpmnew file over the original ('mv' more easily preserves > timestamps and such.) > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you