[kde] [Bug 504703] KDE logging mystery

[Rory]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504703

Rory <rory.ashton at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REPORTED
         Resolution|NOT A BUG                   |---

--- Comment #2 from Rory <rory.ashton at gmail.com> ---
> (For what it's worth, at least on my device Plasma log output is in the
> Journald Log section of KSystemLog, rather than the Kernel one :-) )

Hi and thanks for your detailed reply.  Journald is the part systemd and many
people do not use this (Slackware, FreeBSD, MX Linux).  KDE does not need
systemd to run and should not need systemd tools to locate the KDE logs.  Also,
people who DO use systemd are scratching their heads on Google wondering where
the KDE logs are.

The main issue is the confusion about where KDE logs errors to.  It does not
seem to be /var/log/ which is the logical place.

My issue was the desktop wallpaper failed to load and I could not right click
the desktop.  Some process crashed, but there was no error message popup.  In
KSystemLog I have Kernel Log and X.org Log.  Both have zero matches for 'kde'
or 'plasma'.  This is not just about my problem, google is filled with people
all wondering the same thing : where are the logs for KDE?

In the rare case KDE crashes you need an error message, and that error does not
seem to exist inside of /var/log which is a big problem and not something which
should be brushed aside or relegated to some forum post.  Users need sane error
outputs.

In the future people having the same mystery are going to find this bug report
on Google and see that it is marked as 'not a bug' that KDE does not output
logs to /var/log/

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