Re: Fwd: problem with GeForce GTX 1050
On Tue 14 Jul 2020 at 19:56:25 (-0400), David Bridgham wrote:
> Looking at the archive, it appears this message never made it. Perhaps
> attachments aren't allowed after all so I'll remove them.
I think it depends on their size whether they make it through.
> malabar> ls -l ~/.local/share/xorg/ /var/log/X*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58901 Jul 12 10:37 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60164 Jul 12 10:26 /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58790 Jul 12 10:37 /var/log/Xorg.1.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62612 Jul 12 10:26 /var/log/Xorg.1.log.old
>
> /home/dab/.local/share/xorg/:
> total 264
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dab dab 76312 Jul 12 11:47 Xorg.0.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dab dab 76246 Jul 12 10:36 Xorg.0.log.old
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dab dab 59660 May 10 2019 Xorg.1.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dab dab 50131 May 9 2019 Xorg.1.log.old
>
> I had no idea the X server was keeping a log under my home directory
> as well. I'd only been looking in /var/log. And yes, the log under
> my home directory *is* showing for the older (working) kernel.
As Greg explained, X running as a user can only write under ~,
whereas /var/log/ was the traditional location when running as
root.
> So I'm curious. Since X is running before I log in, how does it know to
> write the log file to my home directory?
I don't know, but I don't run a DM; I start X with startx, so that
question never arises.
> And if this is a newer thing, it's puzzling that booting the newer
> kernel causes X to write to /var/log while under the older kernel it
> writes to my directory.
I agree. My reaction to discovering this might be to ssh into the
computer from another one, and look at what processes are running
and which files they have open, all while logging in through the DM.
Cheers,
David.
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