diff --git a/common/boot-no-crashes.sh b/common/boot-no-crashes.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9e6e0914d000736ffae8584f0231e9d77f6440db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/boot-no-crashes.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# boot-no-crashes.sh
+#
+# Verify that no processes crashed so far during this boot. The journal is
+# automatically attached to LAVA test failures, so we don’t need to manually
+# include that.
+
+# Copyright © 2016 Collabora Ltd.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
+# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+
+set -e
+
+echo "# Anomalous process terminations:"
+sudo journalctl -b | grep ANOM_ABEND | sed 's/^/# /g'
+
+if sudo journalctl -b | grep -q ANOM_ABEND; then
+    echo "TEST_RESULT:fail:boot-no-crashes:ANOM_ABEND found in journalctl logs" >&2
+    exit 1
+else
+    echo "TEST_RESULT:pass:boot-no-crashes:"
+    exit 0
+fi
diff --git a/common/boot-no-crashes.yaml b/common/boot-no-crashes.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3321e239e0c39ab5032473784bb5b064f7caeeff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/boot-no-crashes.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+metadata:
+  name: boot-no-crashes
+  format: "Lava-Test-Shell Test Definition 1.0"
+  description: "Check that nothing crashed when booting"
+  maintainer: "philip.withnall@collabora.co.uk"
+  scope:
+  - functional
+  environment:
+  - lava-test-shell
+
+run:
+  steps:
+    - "common/run-test-in-systemd --name=run-test common/boot-no-crashes.sh"
+
+parse:
+  pattern: 'TEST_RESULT:(?P<result>\w+):(?P<test_case_id>[^:]+):'
+
+# vim:set sw=2 sts=2 et:
diff --git a/templates/group-common-tpl.json b/templates/group-common-tpl.json
index 60d1da03cd3483809fd47e4bc470d0b09512c5ab..68b7161eb8a10daaa14881972bcb14c47b48b99e 100644
--- a/templates/group-common-tpl.json
+++ b/templates/group-common-tpl.json
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@
             "revision": "master",
             "testdef": "common/sanity-check.yaml"
           },
+          {
+            "git-repo": "https://git.apertis.org/git/apertis-tests.git",
+            "revision": "master",
+            "testdef": "common/boot-no-crashes.yaml"
+          },
           {
             "git-repo": "https://git.apertis.org/git/apertis-tests.git",
             "revision": "master",