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pcalvert

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Registered: 2017-05-15

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Some system messages are not being logged

I have an old Beowulf system (that I am getting ready to retire), and I recently noticed something strange while using it. One of the last messages that is "printed" to the screen before shutting down is, "Stopping early crypto disks". Today I looked for that message in the logs and couldn't find it. I looked in boot, kern.log, kern.log.1, syslog, syslog.1, and a few other logs. It wasn't in any of them.

Is it normal for some system messages to not be logged? Did I look in the wrong place?

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rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: Some system messages are not being logged

How should messages been logged when the system is going down already? Disks have been unmounted already? No way.

pcalvert

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Re: Some system messages are not being logged

@rolfie

You are absolutely correct. I hadn't thought of that.

What about the message "Stopping early crypto disks"? Is that a message that one can expect to normally see? I'm not using any disk encryption, so that's why I am asking.

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rolfie

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Re: Some system messages are not being logged

I regularly see this "Stopping early crypto disks" during system shutdown. But I consequently use encryption. Tells me the system is mostly down, and now cryptodisks are being closed as one of the last steps in the shutdown process.

Maybe this is a step that happens all the time? I don't know.