On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 01:44 +0100, Alain Spineux wrote: > 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 I am using kernel 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5. I tried remaking /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.img but that still has the same issue with the log files. > > > > > 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.) There are no rpmorig files and rpmnew is: /etc/ldap.conf.rpmnew /etc/localtime.rpmnew /etc/ntp.conf.rpmnew /etc/passwd.rpmnew /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.rpmnew /etc/cups/mime.types.rpmnew /etc/cups/printers.conf.rpmnew /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew /etc/samba/smb.conf.rpmnew /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.rpmnew /usr/share/a2ps/afm/fonts.map.rpmnew Non of which appear to be related to the problem. Thanks Rob