CHANGE-709 - Refactor logging infrastructure (continuation)

CHANGE-709 - Refactor logging infrastructure (continuation from earlier changes)
- fix chicken/egg problem with log initialization
- add explicit logging messages in more places
- relocate log-delete code to logwriter
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Should this be `public`?  It seems better to be called from the constructor.