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[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, people who know which logs to attach and how to get them usually already know enough to troubleshoot the issue by themselves.

[–] png@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is such a hard part of learning Linux. "Just look at the logs" Which logs? Where? How?

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

journalctl > logs.txt (don't actually do this)

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago

You'd think so, but the logs often contain a ton of noise along with the one line that tells me what the actual issue is.