[LAU] Ardour: Where to access log files

Alf Haakon Lund alf at mellomrommet.no
Tue Feb 3 00:05:51 UTC 2015



On 02. feb. 2015 11:02, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 01:45:47 +0100, Alf Haakon Lund wrote:
>> Still I believe I can find it in some logs, but where to find the log?
>
> Hi Alf,
>
> if applications started by the user or session autostart cause warnings
> and errors for the current user session, they are often written to
>
> ~/.xsession-errors
>
> the messages for the user session you run before were written to
>
> ~/.xsession-errors.old
>
> You also could try
>
> strace -o ardour.log -p $(pidof ardour)
>
> To be honest, I never started strace for an app _after_ an issue
> appeared. I don't know, if this does give useful output.

Thanks for chiming in! Though it seems to me your suggestions mainly 
deal with system-wide errors. I was specifically trying to find Ardour's 
'crash message' - which I saw on screen, but didn't think to write down...

strace doesn't do much useful for me, though, saying
 > strace: attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): No such process

Alf


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