Is there somewhere some useful site or knowledge base for fixing issuses and clean logs from various errors or it is hopeless? Please don’t tell my that i must Google for every strange line in logs. I was used to tweak my Vista to perfection and resolve all issues in Even Viewer, mostly with help of Event viewer online KB, but this is probably utopia in linux…
Unfortunately each message can only be understood in the context of the processes and circumstances that generated it. Don’t imagine that every problem can be automatically classified and explained by software. So Google doesn’t rule everywhere yet, there is still a use for these forums. So perhaps you might like to be more specific and start a new thread explaining what it is you are trying to achieve and what is not happening.
Hm…there is nothing particular what i want to achieve. It was only a question, if there are some easy ways how to distinguish various messages from logs and so on. Fox example a few recent lines from /var/log/messages gives me creeps Hopefully will my new desktop from HP not die anytime soon…
btw. i have standard GNOME 32bit installation with only packman extra repository and pc is HP dc7900SFF
Jan 8 11:14:44 home-desktop kernel: pan0: Dropping NETIF_F_UFO since no NETIF_F_HW_CSUM feature.
Jan 8 11:14:44 home-desktop bluetoothd[4273]: bridge pan0 created
Jan 8 11:14:45 home-desktop ifup: pan0
Jan 8 11:14:45 home-desktop bluetoothd[4273]: Starting experimental netlink support
Jan 8 11:14:46 home-desktop bluetoothd[4273]: Failed to find Bluetooth netlink family
Jan 8 11:14:46 home-desktop ifup: No configuration found for pan0
Jan 8 11:14:46 home-desktop bluetoothd[4273]: Registered interface org.bluez.Service on path /org/bluez/4273/any
Jan 8 11:14:46 home-desktop bluetoothd[4273]: Parsing /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf failed: No such file or directory
Jan 8 11:14:46 home-desktop kernel: Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
Jan 8 11:14:46 home-desktop kernel: Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
Jan 8 11:14:46 home-desktop bluetoothd[4273]: Parsing /etc/bluetooth/input.conf failed: No such file or directory
Jan 8 11:20:38 home-desktop checkproc: checkproc: cannot stat /usr/bin/pand: No such file or directory
Jan 8 11:20:38 home-desktop checkproc: checkproc: cannot stat /usr/bin/dund: No such file or directory
Jan 8 11:44:19 home-desktop smartd[3959]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel changed from 73 to 74
Jan 8 11:44:19 home-desktop smartd[3959]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 73 to 74
Jan 8 11:44:19 home-desktop smartd[3959]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate changed from 253 to 100
Jan 8 11:49:11 home-desktop kernel: [drm:i915_getparam] ERROR Unknown parameter 5
Jan 8 11:53:47 home-desktop kernel: [drm:i915_getparam] ERROR Unknown parameter 5
Jan 8 12:14:08 home-desktop syslog-ng[1932]: Log statistics; dropped=‘pipe(/dev/xconsole)=0’, dropped=‘pipe(/dev/tty10)=0’, processed=‘center(queued)=174’, processed=‘center(received)=129’, processed=‘destination(newsnotice)=0’, processed=‘destination(acpid)=0’, processed=‘destination(firewall)=17’, processed=‘destination(null)=0’, processed=‘destination(mail)=4’, processed=‘destination(mailinfo)=4’, processed=‘destination(console)=10’, processed=‘destination(newserr)=0’, processed=‘destination(newscrit)=0’, processed=‘destination(messages)=108’, processed=‘destination(mailwarn)=0’, processed=‘destination(localmessages)=4’, processed=‘destination(netmgm)=0’, processed=‘destination(mailerr)=0’, processed=‘destination(xconsole)=10’, processed=‘destination(warn)=17’, processed=‘source(src)=129’
Jan 8 12:14:19 home-desktop smartd[3959]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 253 to 100
Jan 8 12:23:13 home-desktop kernel: [drm:i915_getparam] ERROR Unknown parameter 5
Jan 8 12:23:13 home-desktop kernel: [drm:i915_getparam] ERROR Unknown parameter 5
Jan 8 12:33:13 home-desktop kernel: [drm:i915_getparam] ERROR Unknown parameter 5
I really miss badly Event Viewer, because i don’t know what is what Anyway i will propably ignore all those confusing lines…
Most of them are just normal information messages. It’s probably more useful to look at them when you actually have a problem, than to go looking at logs without any goal.
6205 wrote:
> When i look into linux logs it’s not like Event viewer in Windows
> because i don’t know what is error, what is warning or only
> information…
>
> These logs are mess and there in no eventlog-like online knowledge base
> to fix/resolve particullar errors(events)
>
> Compare this http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/9663/obrazovkaqe7.png
> with this http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/8004/acpicg7.jpg
>
> Is there somewhere some useful site or knowledge base for fixing
> issuses and clean logs from various errors or it is hopeless? Please
> don’t tell my that i must Google for every strange line in logs. I was
> used to tweak my Vista to perfection and resolve all issues in Even
> Viewer, mostly with help of Event viewer online KB, but this is probably
> utopia in linux…
It’s funny that you say that. Event viewer drives me nuts. As often as
not, the kb article the message refers to is either non-existant, or
worthless as side pockets on a pig. And the tiny little window is hard
to read. But to each his own.
If you go to /var/log/ and look at the files in it you’ll see that
things aren’t so bad as they seem at first. messages is a sort of
catch-all for most system messages that come down the pike. In addition
to it, you’ll see files that are specifically for error or warning
messages such as warn or messages. Similarily, the mail system will
have mail.info, mail.err and mail.warn.
Do some research on syslog for a better understanding of how the logging
system works. It’s actually quite flexible, allowing each program to
have it’s own output logs so you don’t have everything in one of three
like a default windows system. For instance, you’ll find web server
logs in /var/log/apache2/.
Also, look into tools such as logdigest, which allow you to filter out
the boring informational messages and present a file w/the “interesting”
entries. And, of course, there’s grep and regular expressions for some
high powered searching capabilities. Once you learn a bit more about
it, I think you’ll find it is very powerful and flexible. It is
somewhat daunting at first though…
So perhaps you might like to be more specific and start a new thread explaining what it is you are trying to achieve and what is not happening.
Hopefully will my new desktop from HP not die anytime soon…
Anyway i will propably ignore all those confusing lines…
