Where are the crash information stored?

Michele m.zarri at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 12:24:47 UTC 2007


On 10/31/07, Joel Goguen <jtgoguen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The crash reports themselves are stored in /var/crash/.  You can unpack
> them into a directory using 'apport-unpack' and view the various parts
> of the crash report.
>
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 17:55 +0000, Michele wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I had a couple of bad crashes in the past two days and I would like to
> > know which log I should look into to try to figure out what happened
> > or at least to try to isolate the problem.
> >
> > In one particular occasion I could go to tty1 but every time I tried
> > to log in after inserting the password the terminal was filling up
> > with garb... ehm.. I mean useful information, and then I was asked for
> > the username again.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Michele
>
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> Hello,

Thanks for the replies.

I have in the meanwhile isolated the problem which seems to be conky.
Unfortunately I
did not find any useful information neither in the logs or in /var/crash.

I will open a different thread for that.

Cheers,

Michele
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