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joschi
Asked: 2011-10-19 00:33:28 +0800 CST

How can I log shutdown console text? [duplicate]

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In Oneiric shutdown is a lot slower than in previous releases and when I look at the console text while shutting down there seems to be a problem with the network manager. Now I wanted to know how I log the text being shown during shutdown.

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  1. Best Answer

    Shutdown (and boot) messages are logged in /var/log/syslog.

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  2. Ubuntu doesn't record the shutdown message log anywhere and there's no way to force it to, at least not on my install of Oneiric, not the messages you see scrolling by during shutdown as you frantically reach for your cellphone camera to snap a pic of the dreaded "[fail]" message before it's gone.

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  3. I also expect Ubuntu 11.10 to be slower because of network-manager. While shutting down it seems to time out and end with the message

    "nm-dispatcher.action: Caught signal 15, shutting down. ..."

    I have removed the network-manager and configured my ip address by using /etc/network/interfaces and it is now fast again.

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