[Resolved] Where is the bootlog for Hydrogen

jjanderson5 · 2016-07-03 15:14:14

I have been having trouble booting up Hydrogen and I have placed a few posts recently. One issue is resolved, one is still open. I'm trying to find more information regarding the open issue, but I have a problem.

When the system boots up, I can see at least two errors. The 2nd error resulted in my opening up my current open issue. The first issue scrolls by on my screen so fast, that I cannot not read it and there is no scroll bar, so I cannot go back and look at it. I tried going to /var/log. There is a bootstrap.log there, but it is dated April 23rd and it is empty. I tried looking at other logs and doing a grep in the /var/log directory, but I have not found the log information of my boot process.

Where can I find the boot log information?

Jim A.

Last edited by jjanderson5 (2016-07-03 15:53:11)

damo · 2016-07-03 15:28:23

systemd uses a journal to log messages. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd#Journal for usage.
A basic command is

sudo journalctl

Search the forums for journald posts by @Head_on_a_Stick for help

EDIT: Here is one: Journaling and Journalctl

Last edited by damo (2016-07-03 15:30:40)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-07-03 15:47:33

I like this guide best:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ … stemd-logs

To view the logs as your normal user, run:

sudo gpasswd -a $USER systemd-journal && newgrp systemd-journal

If you want to view logs from previous boots, you may have to edit /etc/systemd/journald.conf (as root!) and change this line:

Storage=persistent

See journald.conf(5) for more.

jjanderson5 · 2016-07-03 15:52:31

@damo and Head_on_a_Stick

Thanks to both. That was very helpful.

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[Resolved] Where is the bootlog for Hydrogen

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