Re: Why aren't there time stamps in Xorg.log?
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:58 +0000 (UTC)
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 :-?
This is not correct - when X crashes, there are often crash-related
error messages in the log.
Celejar
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