[SWLUG] kernel "screen of death"

[Tony Pursell]

On 5 December 2011 11:00, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
>
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.

If anyone knows if crash details are kept anywhere, I would love to know so
I could add details to my bug reports.

Tony
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