Lately I've been having trouble with Bookworm, on both a Pi5
and a Pi2B (32 bit), in which the Raspberry menu is used to
launch applications but seemingly nothing happens. No error
message pops up, it's as if I never even tried. Presumably
something had a fatal error, but where should I look for
the epitaph?
This happens most often with Firefox and Chromium browsers,
but occasionally happens with things like LX Terminal, which
I'd expect to be more robust.
There doesn't seem to be a /var/log/messages, as I'm accustomed
to checking, and ISTR Windows used a dedicated application for
watching system messages. Is there such a beast in Bookworm?
I haven't yet hooked up a serial console cable but could if that's
the only way to see what happened.
Thanks for reading!
bob prohaska
bp@www.zefox.net writes:
Lately I've been having trouble with Bookworm, on both a Pi5
and a Pi2B (32 bit), in which the Raspberry menu is used to
launch applications but seemingly nothing happens. No error
message pops up, it's as if I never even tried. Presumably
something had a fatal error, but where should I look for
the epitaph?
This happens most often with Firefox and Chromium browsers,
but occasionally happens with things like LX Terminal, which
I'd expect to be more robust.
There doesn't seem to be a /var/log/messages, as I'm accustomed
to checking, and ISTR Windows used a dedicated application for
watching system messages. Is there such a beast in Bookworm?
Standard error from applications launched from the desktop historically
(and at least to some extent, still) goes to a file in your home
directory. Watch it with:
tail -f ~/.xsession-errors
Some things log to the user journal:
journalctl --user --follow
Depending on the cause of the problem the kernel log may also be
informative:
journalctl --dmesg --follow
Lately I've been having trouble with Bookworm, on both a Pi5
and a Pi2B (32 bit), in which the Raspberry menu is used to
launch applications but seemingly nothing happens. No error
message pops up, it's as if I never even tried. Presumably
something had a fatal error, but where should I look for
the epitaph?
This happens most often with Firefox and Chromium browsers,
but occasionally happens with things like LX Terminal, which
I'd expect to be more robust.
There doesn't seem to be a /var/log/messages, as I'm accustomed
to checking, and ISTR Windows used a dedicated application for
watching system messages. Is there such a beast in Bookworm?
| Sysop: | Amessyroom |
|---|---|
| Location: | Fayetteville, NC |
| Users: | 71 |
| Nodes: | 6 (0 / 6) |
| Uptime: | 03:14:32 |
| Calls: | 968 |
| Calls today: | 3 |
| Files: | 1,326 |
| Messages: | 280,939 |