Bug#127417: boot-floppies: Problem report saved to /instmnt (on ramdisk) by default
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.19 built locally 12/31/2001
Severity: normal
I tried out the Problem Report function on my last install. It worked
very well, except for the save-where dialog (which John Robinson has
been working on). Since I couldn't get the save dialog to work, I left
the line blank and tabbed to the OK button. It said it had saved the
report at /instmnt//dbg_log.tgz (two slashes were there).
I switched to vc2 and it wasn't lying; that's where it had saved it. But
that is the mount point on the ram disk, so if I had rebooted the report
would have disappeared. A different default like /target would be better.
I looked at the information dump and all seemed good.
The only other thing is, the title of the function really isn't accurate.
It doesn't allow you to report a problem, just saves the machine status.
How about Save Debugging Log instead?
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux test2219 2.2.19-pmac #1 Sun Oct 21 13:45:25 EDT 2001 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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