Re: OpenSuse GNOME logs

[Tim <darkxst fastmail fm>]

On 05/10/15 20:39, Sam Bull wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 20:17 +1100, Tim wrote:
> > On 05/10/15 19:49, Florian Pelz wrote:
> > > On 10/04/2015 03:30 PM, Sam Bull wrote:
> > > > However, I cannot find anywhere the logs for GNOME Shell are going.
> > > > journalctl claims no files were found, .xsession-errors has nothing from
> > > > GNOME in there. Does anybody know where the logs are going?
> > > I don't know about extension development, but
> > >
> > > $ journalctl | grep 'gnome-shell'
> > >
> > > doesn't work?
> > gnome-shell messages go through gnome-session, until the day that systemd user jobs/sessions are switched 
> > on, I don't think that work is
> > complete though, atleast wasn't last time I checked...
> >
> > so:
> > journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-session
> > should do it
> Yeah, I tried that, but journalctl claims no journal files were found...
> both with the /usr/bin/gnome-session argument and without any arguments.
> Does it make a difference that I've not installed it, just running the
> live CD?
That sounds like a permissions error, atlest on debian/ubuntu you need to be a member of the 'adm' group, not 
sure about other distro's though