Hi U can look in /var/log Try to view the last modified Bluesman <div>2007/10/31, Michele <<a href="mailto:m.zarri@gmail.com">m.zarri@gmail.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>