[SWLUG] kernel "screen of death"

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 5 11:00:15 UTC 2011


On 5 December 2011 08:04, Mark Summerfield <mark at qtrac.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Twice in the past week my computer has failed to boot first time. Seems
> to go wrong when doing USB-related stuff.
>
> I reset it and so far it has always booted second time. But when I do
> dmesg I get the message for the boot I've just done, not the failure
> boot, so I can't tell you why it failed! Is it possible to get the
> previous boot message?

Run the Log File Viewer where you will find, in particular, syslog.
You should find the previous records in there.

Colin



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