On Friday 28 Aug 2009, Terry Coles wrote:
> On Friday 28 Aug 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > Hi Terry,
> >
> > > I'm assuming this was a broken update, but what? Anyone got any ideas
> > > where to start looking?
> >
> > If it's a package update, try /var/log/apt to see what's been changed
> > since it went wrong.
>
> What should I see there? In that directory I get:
>
> te...@beige:/var/log/apt$ ls
> term.log term.log.1.gz term.log.2.gz term.log.3.gz term.log.4.gz
>
> Even the .log file seems to a binary and the GZipped files just contain a
> binary too.
Answering myself; it's a permissions thing. I was using Kate through Dolphin,
and it didn't tell me that it couldn't open the document, it just gave me an
empty page.
sudo cat term.log worked.
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