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Where is the output from startup scripts stored in Ubuntu 19.10?
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The problem has been around since Ubuntu 16.04:
Answers there also recommend journalctl but buried in comments:
I confirm that when configuring
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""in
/etc/default/grubthanboot.logis not written. When using
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"than boot.log is again
written. I use Ubuntu 19.04. – adrhc Jun 9 ‘19 at 11:21
When I first started using 16.04 I recall /var/log/boot.log was empty but I didn’t care enough to investigate. I looked after reading this question and now it is populated. There was a bug that has since been fixed:
There may have been a bug regression in 19.10 or the sysvinit package is not installed. On my 16.04 installation I have this:
$ apt list | grep sysv | grep installed
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
sysv-rc/xenial,xenial,now 2.88dsf-59.3ubuntu2 all [installed]
sysvinit-utils/xenial,now 2.88dsf-59.3ubuntu2 amd64 [installed]
To those that do not know, the advantage of /var/log/boot.log over journalctl -b is the color formatting that mirrors the console boot messages:
