561204 – enhance dmesg logging with history

Bug 561204 - enhance dmesg logging with history

Summary: enhance dmesg logging with history

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	OpenRC (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal minor (vote)
Assignee:	OpenRC Team

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Reported:	2015-09-22 20:01 UTC by Scott Bertilson
Modified:	2015-10-21 19:10 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Scott Bertilson 2015-09-22 20:01:53 UTC

At the least, could the dmesg logging rename the previous so that it is at least possible to compare a previous bootup with the current one?

Ideally, it would be great if there could be a specifiable number of previous instances saved.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2015-10-21 19:10:46 UTC

I just modified bootmisc to optionally save the previous dmesg log to
/var/log/dmesg.old. That gives you the ability to compare the  previous
log to the current one. This change is in commit ee94455.

I will consider making it save more logs, but this gets you started.

Thanks for the report.