On Mon, Mar 15, 2021, 13:13 Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/15/21 9:00 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: > > > >>> Is there something I should be looking for on one of the logs (which > >>> one > >>> or ones?) that could shed light on the problem? > > > > Dick, > > > > There are two generic logs: messages and syslog, at least on > > Slackware. I'd > > look there, first. Depending on how log rotation is set up on your > > distribution you'll probably find, e.g., messages, messages.1, > > messages.2, > > etc. Depending on the time cron/log.dail runs logrotate I'd look > > toward the > > head of messages and the tail of messages.1 and their syslog > > equivalents for > > anything looking like ot would make a new volumn. > > I do find syslog, syslog.1 syslog.2.gz ... syslog.7. gz. In syslog I > find a bunch of lines talking about thumbnails: > > Mar 14 22:09:08 ENU-1 dbus-daemon[1074]: [session uid=1000 pid=1074] > Activating service name='org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1' > requested by ':1.27' (uid=1000 pid=1277 comm="Thunar --daemon " > label="unconfined") > Mar 14 22:09:08 ENU-1 org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[124813]: > Registered thumbnailer atril-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o > Mar 14 22:09:08 ENU-1 org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[124813]: > Registered thumbnailer /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o > Mar 14 22:09:08 ENU-1 org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[124813]: > Registered thumbnailer gnome-thumbnail-font --size %s %u %o > Mar 14 22:09:08 ENU-1 org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[124813]: > Registered thumbnailer /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o > Mar 14 22:09:08 ENU-1 dbus-daemon[1074]: [session uid=1000 pid=1074] > Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1' > > I have no idea if that has anything to do with my issue, but I'm > guessing thumbnails and icons are somewhat similar. > > > Is dmesg the same idea as messages? I don't have anything in /var/log > named messages, but I do have a pile of dmesg files, dmesg, dmesg.0, > dmesg.1.gz ... through .4.gz. > > In reading up on how to look at dmesg I discovered dmesg --follow. I'll > start that and see if anything turns up there. > > > Thanks for your recommendations. > . Am I right in understanding that these Desktop links are a side effect of Ubuntu Snap packaging and updates? If my understanding is correct - Slackware and other no Ubuntu based distros do not use snap packaging - so they should be orthogonal to this. Correct? Thanks, Tomas > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
