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bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
> Richard Kettlewell <
invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
bp@www.zefox.net writes:
>>> Lately I`ve been having trouble with Bookworm, on both a Pi5
>>> and a Pi2B (32 bit), in which the Raspberry menu is used to
>>> launch applications but seemingly nothing happens. No error
>>> message pops up, it`s as if I never even tried. Presumably
>>> something had a fatal error, but where should I look for
>>> the epitaph?
>>>
>>> This happens most often with Firefox and Chromium browsers,
>>> but occasionally happens with things like LX Terminal, which
>>> I`d expect to be more robust.
>>>
>>> There doesn`t seem to be a /var/log/messages, as I`m accustomed
>>> to checking, and ISTR Windows used a dedicated application for
>>> watching system messages. Is there such a beast in Bookworm?
>>
>> Standard error from applications launched from the desktop historically
>> (and at least to some extent, still) goes to a file in your home
>> directory. Watch it with:
>>
>> tail -f ~/.xsession-errors
>>
>> Some things log to the user journal:
>>
>> journalctl --user --follow
>>
>> Depending on the cause of the problem the kernel log may also be
>> informative:
>>
>> journalctl --dmesg --follow
>>
>
> Thank you!!!
After opening windows with all three commands running I tried to
start a program that sometimes fails silently. In this particular
case it didn`t fail, starting normally. However, no extra output
was displayed in any of the monitoring windows. Should I have
seen any output from any of these commands during a successful
application start?
FWIW, the command run was from the raspberry>accessories menu,
it`s called owon-vds-tiny and it runs control software for a
USB oscilloscope. When run from the command line it emits
a considerable flow of status information to the controlling
terminal.
I`ll keep trying in hopes of capturing a failure event. So far
they seem associated with prolonged (days or weeks) of uptime.
Thanks for reading,
bob prohaska
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