Well that's odd. I already have LOGFILE=/var/log/messages. I tried
LOG_BACKEND=LOG (it was empty - ULOG gave an error) and I tried upping
VERBOSITY from 1 to 2, but still no logging. Other log parameters are
unchanged.
Regards - Philip
On 26/10/2016 16:36, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 10/26/2016 07:13 AM, Philip Le Riche wrote:
> > I'm running Shorewall (latest version downloaded a couple of months
> > ago) on Linux Mint Cinnamon. The GUI login screen always comes up
> > on boot, but after logging in, maybe once in half a dozen goes, I
> > get a message that Cinnamon has crashed and it enters a Fallback
> > Mode. I mentioned it a while back and was recommended to do
> > shorewall dump and to grab Xorg.0.log, which was tricky at the time
> > since Fallback Mode, incredibly, doesn't seem to offer a shell!
>
> > I managed to get a shell this morning and did just that. Shorewall
> > dump said /var/log/messages didn't exist (which I confirmed) and
> > Xorg.0.log is appended, though it shows nothing untoward that I can
> > see.
>
> So set LOGFILE in shorewall.conf to point to the log where Shorewall
> messages are being sent.
>
>
> > My hunch is that the Cinnamon desktop is trying to use something
> > that Shorewall hasn't quite finished twiddling with. The
> > variability would certainly suggest a timing problem. However, it
> > may be nothing to do with Shorewall, but if smeone could cast an
> > eye over the log I'd be grateful.
>
>
> Unfortunately, the X log didn't show anything out of the ordinary that
> I could see.
>
> -Tom
> >
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