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jwhendy

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Registered: 2010-04-01

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[SOLVED] Help locating various log files (boot process)

Hi,

I recently reinstalled with encryption and have a few messages that fly past the screen too fast to parse but do not seem to be in any of the files in /var/log.

1) there's something complaining about a file related to the cpu ondemand governor but I'm not seeing it well enough to know what it's saying. 'grep -i demand /var/log/*' doesn't give me anything.

2) When I start X (startx), I'm getting something like 'Xauth unrecognized command 1poiu1qekjh098q70987iohjqper987q34879' but, again, I have no idea where it's coming from or why it's complaining. Xorg.log doesn't have it. 'grep -i auth /var/log/*' doesn't have it.

Are some things not recorded in logs anywhere or do I just not know where to look?

Thanks.

Last edited by jwhendy (2011-03-08 02:47:26)

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jwhendy

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Re: [SOLVED] Help locating various log files (boot process)

@pyther: fantastic. I was actually able to see both messages. One was complaining about /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold not existing. I added "sleep 2 &&" before the line that sets this in rc.local and so far it's not been there.

The message at startx is:

xauth: (stdin):2: unknown command "8e40369215c09339d784bb2c96c9c777"

In searching, there were some references to a problem with ~/.Xauthority and one use said he nuked it and when it regenerated, everything was all good. I logged out, logged in as root, moved the file to /home/user/.Xauthority.bak and then re-logged in as myself and it was all good.

Thanks!