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Debugging Help‐‐ Using journalctl to find cause of issues

Daniel Sheeler edited this page Sep 7, 2024 · 1 revision

While developing the extension, if I encounter an issue like a crash or a freeze while using, I eventually get to a terminal and run:

journalctl -rb /usr/bin/gnome-shell

and search that output for 'Coverflow' to find error messages (the -r means newest messages first, and -b just limits log to events since last boot).

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