On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 01:48 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > - In the normal shutdown/reboot case there is generally nothing > interesting to see after whatever was saved in the system log. Since > there is often only space for one kernel log dump, this also increases > the probability that a crash log will be overwritten before being > copied elsewhere. [...]
Forgot to mention: this also means that if e.g. efivars is flaky on some system then normal reboot or shudown becomes flaky too. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ... and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds
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