> - there are various apport hooks that attach /var/log/udev to bug reports,
If it's only that, I'm happy to fix those. In fact I noticed that it was still attached by apport's attach_hardware() hookutils, I removed that. The other call that I see on my system is in libmtp, I just uploaded a fix. I'm happy to do an archive grep to update the other apport hooks. This log does not really give you that much -- if a value is wrong or a device is missing, then you still need to boot with "debug" to get all the "why"s, like the corresponding kernel messages or the output/error messages of udev probes. You can maybe compare the order in which devices are detected in a successful and a failed boot, but for this again you need to do multiple boots and then can also just use "debug". So I still consider it as something which is unnecessarily done at every boot and not useful enough to be kept (I look at a lot of boot failures, and haven't met a single case where this was useful..) So if you don't mind, I'd rather repurpose this as - Search/fix remaining apport hooks which write this file - Clean up /var/log/udev on upgrade ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: Incomplete => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1537211 Title: clean up /var/log/udev.log Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in systemd source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in libmtp package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: The udev package contains an upstart job, /etc/init/udevmonitor.conf, whose purpose is to record boot-time information about devices in a log file for future debugging. There is no equivalent systemd unit for this job, so with the move to systemd, we now lose this useful debugging information. I'm not aware of any other way under systemd to get a replay of the boot-time kernel events. If there is one, that's fine, but otherwise there should be a systemd unit equivalent here that can give us this log. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1537211/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp