[LAU] Ardour: Where to access log files

[Paul Davis]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Alf Haakon Lund <alf at mellomrommet.no> wrote:

> When exporting a session ardour (3.5) crashed and everything (Ubuntu
> Studio 14.04) froze.
>
> I had to open an "emergency terminal" (ctrl-alt-f#) to kill and reboot,
> and didn't manage to copy the error message. Still I believe I can find it
> in some logs, but where to find the log?
>
> Oh, and when Ardour loaded the session after reboot it was with this
>
>  [ERROR]: could not reconstitute MementoCommand from XMLNode. object
>> type = ARDOUR::AutomationList id = 21170
>>
>
> I suspect the reason for the crash was that I tried to give the export
> file a new name not already on disk.
>
> This should probably be in the Ardour forums, I know. I intend to register
> there at some later time...
>

There are no "log files".

You can generally ignore most ERROR messages in terms of useful
information. The message above is particularly uninformative from a user
perspective.

Crashes in Ardour and ways to figure out what is happening are described at
http://ardour.org/debugging_ardour
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