<div>On 10/31/07, Joel Goguen <<a href="mailto:jtgoguen@gmail.com">jtgoguen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 -- Joel Goguen <a href="http://jgoguen.net/">http://jgoguen.net/</a> The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it. -- P. Medawar -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>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