The journal is a log of every kernel level event in your system, loading and unloading hardware, modules, logging sucessful display manager starts etc. You can can check it with journalctl. I should note this is for if you use systemd as your startup system, which you may or may not be. What distro do you use? Whatever start up system you use should have a logging function you can probe.
For your crash, check your journal, it should offer clues as to why the crash is happening.
Thank you, what is the journal and how do i check it?
The journal is a log of every kernel level event in your system, loading and unloading hardware, modules, logging sucessful display manager starts etc. You can can check it with
journalctl. I should note this is for if you use systemd as your startup system, which you may or may not be. What distro do you use? Whatever start up system you use should have a logging function you can probe.Also make sure that this is persisted (kept) between boots; this is configured in
/etc/systemd/journald.confjournalctl -kshows only kernel events.Also clean it up every once and a while, thing gets big over a year.
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