Trying to start kmail on a 12.04.2 install

[Nils Kassube]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 12 July 2013 11:26:43 Nils Kassube did opine:
> > But could it be
> > that your $HOME partition is mounted ro due to errors?
> 
> How would I check that, search dmesg right after the boot?
> 
> While I'm asking questions, what happened to /var/log/messages on
> 12..04, it doesn't appear to exist.  If so, what has replaced it as
> the default bit bucket for "messages" type stuff?

"/var/log/messages" is gone. IIRC the developers wanted to avoid 
duplicate logs and therefore you should check "/var/log/syslog" (or 
dmesg). I'm not sure what the mount command would tell you if a 
partition gets remounted ro due to errors.


Nils