From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 12:17:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDA116A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:17:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D75043D53 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:17:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from addymin@pacbell.net) Received: from unknown (HELO pacbell.net) (m?chinn@pacbell.net@63.202.83.21 with plain) by smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Apr 2004 19:17:09 -0000 Message-ID: <40803173.9060002@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:18:11 -0700 From: Mike User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kent Stewart References: <40802BCC.6090705@pacbell.net> <200404161200.55721.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200404161200.55721.kstewart@owt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to capture/record virtual console output? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: addymin@pacbell.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:17:09 -0000 Kent Stewart wrote: > On Friday 16 April 2004 11:54 am, Mike wrote: > >>Greetings: >> >>System: FreeBSD 4.9-stable >> >>KDE (3.14) is crashing on me and I need to capture the error messages >>(so that I can submit my problem to the this mailing list). >> >>I'm logged in as root. And I'm in tty0. KDE crashes (core dump) and >>produces several error messages along with mention of the file >>"/var/log/XFree86.0.log". >> >>I checked the contents of "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" and it does not >>contain the error messages produced by the crashing KDE. > > > Have you tried something like > startx >& kde.log Kent, Thanks. That worked perfectly. I was thrashing around trying to use "tail" without much success. So now I have the error messages. On the next problem... Mike > > I don't start up in kde but at the cli and use startx to fire off kde. > Yes, I should have mentioned that. I use startx too to start kde. > I suspect that you did a partial update of some of the recent library > changes. Something is linking to a new library but has the old > structures. > > Kent > > >>So I need to find a way grab or capture the text output generated >>from the crash. >> >>I've tried opening pico in tty1 and using the mouse in tty0 to >>highlight (and place in the buffer?) the error messages on tty0. No >>go. It's either that the buffer gets cleared when switching between >>tty0 and tty1 or that highlighting the text via mouse isn't working. >> >>I've gone through 2-years worth of FreeBSD mailing list messages but >>I can't seem to come up with solution. >> >>Hints? Thank you. >> >>Michael Chinn >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >