[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#698751: bootlogd does not work

[Rustom Mody]

Package: bootlogd
Version: 2.88dsf-34
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
I am getting intermittent crashes at boot time (about once in 8-10 boots)
Probably a motherboard or some such h/w problem.
To home into the problem I wanted to see the boot messages. I was recommended
on the forums to use bootlogd.
However another post on the forums informs that after upstart, bootlogd does
not work

And that is my experience:
/var/log/boot only has the two lines:

(Nothing has been logged yet.)
Tue Jan 22 00:16:47 2013: INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bootlogd depends on:
ii  libc6     2.13-37
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian8

bootlogd recommends no packages.

bootlogd suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information