On Fri, 09 Aug 2019 15:59:50 +0100, David Taylor wrote:

> On 09/08/2019 12:08, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> []
>  > I've found it useful to have tail running on the messages log in a
>  > terminal window if I'm having trouble accessing a USB device. This
>  > has helped a lot when trouble-shooting USB serial adapters and also
>  > when discovering and reporting a USB mass-storage bug which prevented
>  > my laptop from seeing both the built-in memory and an SD-card in a
>  > Medion S.3747 PNA when it was connected to the laptop via USB.
>  >
>  > Just run "sudo tail -f /var/log/messages" in the terminal window.
>  > Kill tail with Ctrl-C when you've finished using it.
>
> Thanks for that suggestion!  I ran that, and tried starting the program,
> but no new messages appeared.  In fact, the time of the last message was
> midnight "today".  But that tip will be also useful for the future.

Its worthwhile grepping /var/log/* - providing that you know a program
name and/or log-format timestamp to search on - if there's nothing in
messages.


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