Crash when trying to view log files

Mountainjew · 2009-03-28 21:21:39

So i noticed my system time had stopped syncing and wanted to find out why. I went into ksystemlog and tried to view errors.log. Then my system crashed. I then killed all processes with the magic sysrq key and ended up in tty. I tried to view some logs in there too using vi, but nothing appeared and i had to kill all processes again. Then i checked out my system monitor when i was back in kde and tried $vi /var/log/errors.log and noticed that vi eats up all the cpu and ram when doing this. I also tried with nano and it did the same. Luckily i was able to kill them before i was oom.

The irony of this, i can't find anything from google under "system log crash". And i can't get into my logs to find out what is going on. The only thing i've changed lately is backgrounding "crond fam & kdm".

Any ideas fellars?

Oh i'm using arch-64 with kdemod 4.2.

Last edited by Mountainjew (2009-03-28 21:22:37)

Mountainjew · 2009-03-28 23:33:26

C'mon, where's the love?

Nobody have any idea?

bernarcher · 2009-03-28 23:51:25

Try a virtual console terminal.
Let's see what is there at all: ls -l /var/log
You might probably go root: su -
Then use less to review the error log in question.

Arch Linux

#1 2009-03-28 21:21:39

Crash when trying to view log files

#2 2009-03-28 23:33:26

Re: Crash when trying to view log files

#3 2009-03-28 23:51:25

Re: Crash when trying to view log files

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