Package: util-linux
Version: 2.29.2-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
        dmesg -T
   
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
        dmesg -T  
     
   * What was the outcome of this action?
        Output stopped on 8/25/17 (today is 8/29/17)
   
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
        Output of the last day or so entries

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The default kernel printk buffer size is 262144 bytes (kernel parameter 
log_buf_len
has a default of 2^18).  I expected that it would wrap and begin new entries 
after filling.

I have added a workaround to the grub menu entry to specify a 1M buffer length.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set 
to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii  fdisk          2.29.2-4
ii  libblkid1      2.29.2-2
ii  libc6          2.24-14
ii  libmount1      2.29.2-2
ii  libpam0g       1.1.8-3.6
ii  libselinux1    2.6-3+b2
ii  libsmartcols1  2.29.2-2
ii  libsystemd0    234-2.3
ii  libtinfo5      6.0+20170715-2
ii  libudev1       234-2.3
ii  libuuid1       2.29.2-2
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

util-linux recommends no packages.

Versions of packages util-linux suggests:
ii  dosfstools          4.1-1
ii  kbd                 2.0.4-1
ii  util-linux-locales  2.29.2-2

-- debconf information:
  util-linux/noauto-with-nonzero-passnum:

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