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startup manager log file ?

Asked by Dave H

I've enabled startup manger. Lots of interesting text is written to the screen during the boot process, including failures sometimes. Is the boot screen text written to a file? where where I find it? I've tried various searches without any luck.

Thanks

Dave H

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Best pablitofuerte (pablitofuerte) said : 		#1

You are right, lots of interesting text is written to log files. They are store in /var/log/ directory.
You can browse those log-giles with nautius or with the terminal.
Ej:
ls -la /var/log/

If you want to read all those messages during the boot process:

more /var/log/dmesg

You also have a graphical tool to manage with then, Press ALT+F2, then write "gnome-system-log" and read the log you are searching for

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Dave H (dave-hills-2009) said : 		#2

Many thanks for the prompt response. The "gnome-system-log" viewer is a dream. Would never have guessed dmesg is a boot log file!

Cheers

Dave_H