-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 10/26/2016 07:13 AM, Philip Le Riche wrote: > I'm running Shorewall (latest version downloaded a couple of months > ago) on Linux Mint Cinnamon. The GUI login screen always comes up > on boot, but after logging in, maybe once in half a dozen goes, I > get a message that Cinnamon has crashed and it enters a Fallback > Mode. I mentioned it a while back and was recommended to do > shorewall dump and to grab Xorg.0.log, which was tricky at the time > since Fallback Mode, incredibly, doesn't seem to offer a shell! > > I managed to get a shell this morning and did just that. Shorewall > dump said /var/log/messages didn't exist (which I confirmed) and > Xorg.0.log is appended, though it shows nothing untoward that I can > see.
So set LOGFILE in shorewall.conf to point to the log where Shorewall messages are being sent. > > My hunch is that the Cinnamon desktop is trying to use something > that Shorewall hasn't quite finished twiddling with. The > variability would certainly suggest a timing problem. However, it > may be nothing to do with Shorewall, but if smeone could cast an > eye over the log I'd be grateful. > Unfortunately, the X log didn't show anything out of the ordinary that I could see. - -Tom - -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYEM1+AAoJEJbms/JCOk0QQLsQALdRuVIkXXwTC+tgZCJQsbft mAYDjEly+hXcUED8dZM2IhMN7ZYzlo9l0FvXRAmD/t4GtL0/uxVy/flcaaiCvkoh CVci1gINqF/WcYmq8vtRVf9H9ZSWfY/1ri/DZIZceqEaj2NQ7piWkPAF2hoP9Izu hNh2YasboUbBhQPNTC/DGNhQyyPtZi62TBjOI1TNzs4M/bQ9Cy0DLnimZ8BrI5kL Q73iYreeWFF8MWT7kBxqtq4J969o0HF+TCuV7cB2i0uq58y/cHOnBOR7ypM4urAH mWRZm19n7aZiaEswE6xJ62hAtlbk/zc+jPuptJ27qcQwkrhpGZUHGUJ30dKgHJL0 3PSNTh/7FKpux8lNgOA0zKFEqBXZAldVY7V5U6ByZ5+xJcCbv/h5tP6mji9/YfCf o7/6e3+/p6tpyP9IG+Rbc8dcwreltzJuNSnx8fP85SjEelLOBOzMKJCR+NOWL4+U Et0u673snnWMa0NdOkJGWi2QtgQo4qXobO+PomYnlQhckL+V4qRlqLn0B8bZ+YnB Qy1glQ8u9FCed8msGo13/UWJumVijQPLbll4QlrODDfjT1ib2wOgU8wcbMhv/lem mL7PsT9ys0UswrgGcu+GAmTHXYw5rPENtqzkrKtbTLAvOcgNw2jTP8wbKbRH8Bad mu5X2h3+vuJWczGOORsc =zp0p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers Did the resurgence of CLI tooling catch you by surprise? Reconnect with the command line and become more productive. Learn the new .NET and ASP.NET CLI. Get your free copy! http://sdm.link/telerik _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
