[openbox] How to get to the bottom of an Openbox crash?

ohnonot-github ohnonot-github at posteo.de
Tue Apr 3 12:27:06 EDT 2018


You know that 17.10 is a sort of beta version, yes?
It is hard to get to the bottom of it after you have been using again, but next time tr
 journalctl -b 
and look at /var/log/Xorg.log.0
Caveat : that is the log of the -current- session, but you will find more files in that directory. 

On April 3, 2018 12:54:44 PM EEST, Sean Hammond <openbox at snhmnd.fastmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm running Openbox 3.6.1 on Ubuntu 17.10.
>
>I suspended my computer last night (with the systemctl suspend command)
>and when I woke it up this morning my Openbox session was gone. I was
>greeted with GDM and had to login again, start a new session.
>Normally suspend and resume works fine: my Openbox session continues.
>And it has worked fine when I tested it since the incident too.
>I don't know if it was Openbox or something else (X Windows?) that
>crashed. Just wondering what I could do, either now or before or after
>the next time this happens, to get to the bottom of what happened /
>what crashed?
>I've looked through what I could find in /var/log and in the Gnome Logs
>app and nothing has been very enlightening. I did find a "Fatal Server
>Error" from gdm-x-session in /var/log/syslog.1 around the time of
>waking
>from suspend, but it doesn't tell me much:
>Apr  3 09:55:08 chamlis /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2542]: Fatal
>server error:Apr  3 09:55:08 chamlis /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2542]:
>(EE) EnterVT
>failed for screen 0Apr  3 09:55:08 chamlis
>/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2542]: (EE)
>Apr  3 09:55:08 chamlis /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2542]: (EE)
>Apr  3 09:55:08 chamlis /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2542]: Please
>consult the The X.Org Foundation supportApr  3 09:55:08 chamlis
>/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2542]: #011 at
>http://wiki.x.orgApr  3 09:55:08 chamlis
>/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2542]:  for help.
>Apr  3 09:55:08 chamlis /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2542]: (EE) Please
>also check the log file at "/home/seanh/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log"
>for additional information.Apr  3 09:55:08 chamlis
>/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2542]: (EE)
>
>(Nothing in theĀ /home/seanh/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log file that it
>says to look in seems interesting.)
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