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<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><div class="gmail_quote">Tony Pursell <ajp@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 December 2011 11:00, Colin Law <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clanlaw@googlemail.com">clanlaw@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 5 December 2011 08:04, Mark Summerfield <<a href="mailto:mark@qtrac.eu">mark@qtrac.eu</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Twice in the past week my computer has failed to boot first time. Seems<br>
> to go wrong when doing USB-related stuff.<br>
><br>
> I reset it and so far it has always booted second time. But when I do<br>
> dmesg I get the message for the boot I've just done, not the failure<br>
> boot, so I can't tell you why it failed! Is it possible to get the<br>
> previous boot message?<br>
<br>
</div>Run the Log File Viewer where you will find, in particular, syslog.<br>
You should find the previous records in there.<br>
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<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br>I don't think you will find any details. My Ubuntu 10.10 crashes often and some times I need two tries to boot it, especially after a crash. <br><br>If anyone knows if crash details are kept anywhere, I would love to know so I could add details to my bug reports.<br>
<br>Tony<br></div></div><br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all">I haven't noticed on Ubuntu but fedora 15 actually comes with a sigabt kernel daemon for this exact purpose. It might be available in the Ubuntu repository or could be retrofitted.<br>
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PGR <br>
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