[xubuntu-users] How to get the right information about a "crash"

[Ralf Mardorf]

I should explain the command I mentioned.

There are Xorg log files in /var/log.

  [weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ ls -hl /var/log/Xorg*
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 599 Jul 17 22:58 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 599 Jul 17 22:58 /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29K Sep 10  2015 /var/log/Xorg.1.log
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29K Sep  9  2015 /var/log/Xorg.1.log.old

  [weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ man grep | grep DESCRIPTION -A1
  DESCRIPTION
         grep searches the named input FILEs for lines containing a match
         to the given PATTERN. [snip]

The "EE" is more or less unique for Xorg log files and a starting point
to find errors in those log files. IOW

  grep EE /var/log/Xorg*log*

does search for entries containing "EE" in all Xorg log files, since
the asterisks are wildcards.

  grep EE /var/log/Xorg*log* > /tmp/xorglog.txt

">" redirects the standard output to a file.

Before you post the output, read it, even if you shouldn't understand it.

1. A log file could contain private data.
   Unlikely a Xorg log file contains such data, but...
2. ...you could google possible error messages and find hints, how to
   solve the issue.