[clue-tech] Missing Synaptic [was Re: Grab your coat, it'sstill on!]

[Christopher Cross]

That is the great thing about the tail command, just add the -f flag

tail -f --lines=20 ~/.xsession-errors

and it will keep reading those last 20 lines. Now with tail reading the last
20 lines go ahead and try and open synaptic again and see if anything shows
up while you are opening it. If something does happen in the terminal with
the tail command then just ctrl+c to stop it and copy and paste that
information.



On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Jed S. Baer <cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net>wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:40:58 -0700
> WILLIAM PATTERSON+I*I SMITH wrote:
>
> > Does this help?
>
> Well, it would if various window managers, X programs, etc. wouldn't
> insist on bit-spewing .xsession-errors with so much cruft that the error
> messages you really want to see get completely buried.
>
> I'd hoped that about 20 lines would get back far enough to find the
> actuall error. It's important to look at .xsession-errors immediately
> following whatever event you're concerned with. You might have to keep
> working backwards through .xsession errors until you find lines
> complaining about something related to synaptic. Sometimes, it's easier
> to just pull the whole file into a text editor, and then search backwards
> for the command.
>
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