** Summary changed:

- No boot-time logs exists at this time in Gutsy
+ No boot-time logs exists at this time in Hardy

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: ubuntu-minimal
  
- In the current build of Gutsy, there is no kind of boot log, ie a log of
+ In the current build of Hardy there is no kind of boot log, ie a log of
  all the messages shown during boot.
  
  There are a couple of bugs in the (two, I think) packages that provide
  boot-log functionality that I'd like to link here (either would fix
  this) but I can't find right now. I hope someone in triage can help.
  However, this is a bug in the entire distribution, not a duplicate of
  those, because they are sufficient but not necessary; this one can be
  fixed by another temporary solution, for instance.
  
  I think even a makeshift solution would do for now, even if it's mildly
  inconvenient or buggy. A boot-time parameter could enable/disable it.
  
  I hesitate to mark this as a security vulnerability. It's not really a
  vulnerability in a package, but it's a (lacking) vital security tool:
  without a boot log it's very hard to notice error messages (and thus
  potential security issues) during the boot time.
  
  It's also pretty hard to debug any start-up issues---if any of the
  developers can help with a note of how they manage to find out what's
  wrong with, eg, initrd scrips, please leave a note here.
  
  I attached this to ubuntu-minimal, as I think this functionality is
  critical to a running system, but feel free to move it somewhere more
  appropriate.
+ 
+ (This is here since Gutsy, actually. I'd think it an important issue for
+ a LTS release.)

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No boot-time logs exists at this time in Hardy
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