Hi On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 09:25:12AM +0000, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 28 nov 12, 18:33:43, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > 1st trial, 1st install, 1st try > > no swap, after "su & password" attempted "apt-get install gdm3 > > gedit gparted" > > result - massive crash > > The error messages would have been very useful. > > > as there had been warning message of strangeness possible without > > SWAP, not surprised > > How much RAM does your test machine have? Assuming lack of memory is the > problem apt-get might have been killed by the OOM killer and as far as I > know this is logged. > (On OpenWRT one can see it with 'dmesg', don't know about Debian).
dmesg also works on debian - not because of any particular feature of Debian, but rather because of that's the way the Linux kernel works - it has a buffer (8K IIRC) which contains the last kernel messages. Also: The default debian syslog config should write this to /var/log/kern.log, where you will have the additional benefits of timestamps. Obviously, if the crash is _really_ bad, then nothing may end up on disk... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121129110351.GD7215@hawking