[iyonix-support] Re: Flashed it now, but ...

  • From: Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:01:29 +0000

On 3 Feb, Jeremy Nicoll - freelists iyo only wrote in message
    <gemini.kx8tqo00a7muk02hs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Doug Webb <doug.j.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Suggest this is only used as a last resort if you can't get any further
> > using !Reporter to find the issue and i would also make a full backup of
> > !Boot just in case before using.
> 
> The reason people keep suggesting use of !Reporter is that when it is
> instaleld and configured appropriately it can create a very detailed log
> of what commands are being executed on a machine.  If it is turned on at
> the start of boot it logs all the commands issued while booting the
> machine.

Indeed.  It would have showed what was *really* happening, as opoosed to an
'untechnical' analysis of what might have been happening.  IYSWIM.
 
> It's extremely unlikely that Alex (or anyone else 'untechnical') would
> understand much of what such a log file shows.
> 
> But the log can be saved.  The resulting file could be emailed to anyone
> who volunteers to look at it, so they could see what's really going on.
> Please though, don't post such a log to the mail-list.

Reporter does, however, highlight errors so that Alex (or whoever) could
post details of these and their immediate context.  By doing that, this
thread could probably have been knocked on the head after a couple of
posts... :-(

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