Re: Why aren't there time stamps in Xorg.log?
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:41:04 -0500, Borden Rhodes wrote:
>
>> This is a question which nags at me whenever I try to figure out why
>> something doesn't work in X. dmesg timestamps entries so when I'm going
>> through trying to figure out why something crashed or didn't work like I
>> naively expected it to, I can focus on the log entries around the time
>> the event occurred. Ideally, I'd prefer these entries to be stamped with
>> Gregorian dates and times instead of seconds since boot but that's
>> another topic.
>>
>> Xorg.log (~/.xsession-errors, too, for that matter) doesn't timestamp
>> entries. Therefore, when X crashes because I tried to use RandR or my
>> video doesn't work properly, I get all of this fascinating information
>> about how cleverly X figured out my screen resolution and refresh rates,
>> but I don't know when they were added to Xorg.log so I don't know
>> whether they are relevant to my investigation.
>
> I thought "Xorg.0.log" entries were only written at start-up :-?
>
>> Since, according to Google, I'm the first to ask this question, I'm
>> guessing I'm misunderstanding the purpose of Xorg.log and that time
>> stamps are counterproductive. Could someone please explain why this is
>> the way that it is?
>
> At least someone at Ubuntu filled a report for that exact purpose ;-)
>
> x.org logging doesn't put timestamp on the log lines
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/285787
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
Furthermore, it seems that they're trying to fix that in Ubuntu. Let's
see if those patches will go upstream.
Alexey
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