Re: Shutdown failure and empty boot.log with encrypted system

markus reichelt <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:17:11 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cryptography
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* Frederick Gazerblezeebe <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have two issues:  The first is since encrypting /, the file
> /var/log/boot.log is no longer written.  Is this a problem with my
> /specific setup or is this how it behaves for everyone else?

Is /var already mounted when boot.log is being written? Search init
scripts for boot.log (usually it's just a dmesg > file)


> Ideas?  Can I provide other information that would be helpful with
> troubleshooting?

Idea: I'd guess it's one more script issue, and dig through fedora's
shutdown scripts and adapt them so that /var and /usr are unmounted
at last, right before the actual sync; reboot; magic


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