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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 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.