Stig Mogensen <stig.mogensen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Surely there is a way to extract errormessages and/or startup
> messages, from a programme that crashes my entire machine?.

That would normally be a kernel core dump to swap. Of course, you need
tools to analyse this. This thread might help throwing some pointers
your way:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/21/53

Regards,
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