Re: [StrongED] Re: / Wimplog and styleguide

[Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Jan 2017  Jeremy Nicoll - ml sed 
<jn.ml.sed45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2017-01-17 12:53, Jim Nagel wrote:
>> Peter Young  wrote on Jan 16 [in the StrongEd list]:
>>> ... and a transient message comes up, not recorded by WimpLog "Unable
>>> to load SCSI::SSD.$.Messenger" (had to reboot several times to make
>>> sure I'd copied that correctly) ...
>> 
>> A pet peeve has been poked.  It otta be in the Styleguide or
>> somewhere, that any error message from any app should be genernted in
>> such a way that Wimplog can log it.  Would surely help developers if
>> users can easily and accurately report errors.
>>    (I don't mean this partic for Fred, but as a general point.)

> In an OS services are started layered on top of each other.  The WIMP
> gets started pretty late on.  The error message concerned is probably
> issued by some part of the OS that starts long before the WIMP exists.
> Having such messages written anywhere that's persistent would be
> useful; one can always write a utility that drags those messages out
> of their storage location and merges them into more sophisticated
> logs.

Good wisdom, but I don't think it applies to this situation. The 
message occurs a good two to three minutes after start-up. I suppose 
!Reporter would show it up, but I can't get my head around that app.

Best wishes,

Peter.

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