Software Updater messages

[Colin Law]

On 6 September 2017 at 13:45, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/09/17 13:37, Colin Watson wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 11:29:42AM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>>> I'm getting a stream of messages from Software Updater's terminal read
>>> out when I use it. They're mainly Perl errors but there's too many of
>>> them & they travel too fast to be able to figure out what they mean.
>>>
>>> I've looked in about every log file for any trace of the read-out but to
>>> no avail. Does anybody know where I might look so I can act on the errors?
>>
>> Have you tried /var/log/apt/term.log?  This sort of thing usually lands
>> there.
>
> Hi Colin.
>
> Yeah I've checked all the usual suspects including term.log, no dice.
> Have tried Google as well of course but no luck.
>
> The annoying thing is if I update from the command line it doesn't
> happen so I can't pipe it to a file. It only complains when I use the
> GUI effort.

Try invoking the gui software from the command line, then the messages
should appear inline. I am not sure which app that is though. If you
start it then look at the running processes you will probably find it.
If you can't see it then open a terminal and run
xprop _NET_WM_PID | sed 's/_NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = //' | ps `cat`

The mouse cursor should change into a cross. Click in the updater window and in
the terminal you should see the process that has opened it.

Colin

>
> Cheers,
>
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