From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 12:00:57 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 3CFC016A4D0 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:00:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD93C43D2F for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:00:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3GJ0tjw022163; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:00:55 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, addymin@pacbell.net Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:00:55 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <40802BCC.6090705@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <40802BCC.6090705@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404161200.55721.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: How to capture/record virtual console output? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:00:57 -0000 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 I don't start up in kde but at the cli and use startx to fire off 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" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html