I’ve been having problems with a remote system failing to reboot and having to ask somebody to power it off and on. I have an idea the problem is due to an NFS mount but I can’t find boot.omsg after I restart so I’m unable to see the shutdown log.
Can anyone advise if something needs to be changed to get this log and/or is it somewhere else.
Explaining the version of openSUSE you use might help.
On 2015-07-08 21:56, davidlwilcox wrote:
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> I’ve been having problems with a remote system failing to reboot and
> having to ask somebody to power it off and on. I have an idea the
> problem is due to an NFS mount but I can’t find boot.omsg after I
> restart so I’m unable to see the shutdown log.
>
> Can anyone advise if something needs to be changed to get this log
> and/or is it somewhere else.
Since systemd that file is deprecated, years ago. Depending on the
openSUSE version you would look at /var/log/messages or at the command
journalctl output.
However, if your machine boots using plymouth, which is doubtful for a
remote or headless machine, then this creates a boot.log file, I think.
Unsure it contains all the data, though. I would not rely on it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Sorry, should have said that I’m running 13.2.
I thought it might be something to do with systemd but I couldn’t find anything online which indicated where to look. Thanks for the tip.
Having now found that I can look at the previous boot using journalctl is there any quick way to get to the shutdown messages. All I seem to be able to do at the moment is have to search through a lot of data to get to the last bit.
journalctl -b -1
man journelctl
for full instructions
Note also the the old methosds can also be installed if you want/need the old log files
On 2015-07-09 15:26, arvidjaar wrote:
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> davidlwilcox;2718906 Wrote:
>> Having now found that I can look at the previous boot using journalctl
>
> journalctl -b -1
And then hit the ‘end’ key to get to the end of the halt sequence.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
On 2015-07-09 15:46, gogalthorp wrote:
> Note also the the old methosds can also be installed if you want/need
> the old log files
yep.
I have a local service that writes a marker to the logs. A line that I
can easily search for to locate a boot or a halt. I got valuable help in
these forums to get the trick working on systemd 
For example, if I see the boot start line, without a corresponding halt
line just above, I know for certain that the previous session crashed.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))