Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a shut down log, and where can I find it ?

[amenex]

Upon running sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade immediately after  
the post just above, I was greeted with the admonition to run apt-get  
autoremove to get rid of apache2-data ... which I dutifully did.

Upon restarting (just to see if the blinky screen persists)  ... sure enough  
... another blinky with a little different unreadable message appeared at the  
usual place ... and I still cannot find where that is located in the  
multitude of logs.

However, grep "Sep 14" /var/log/auth.log produced _NO_ instances of activity  
by www-data after doing the sudo apt-get autoremove apache2-data task. So  
apt-get was right: apache2-data wasn't needed ... but it was trying anyway.  
That appears to dispose of user www-data once and for all.

I looked into "man shutdown" and "man halt": There appears to be no  
possibility of forcing a verbose shutdown log.

If it appears on what looks like a console screen, it must be stored  
_somewhere_ on the hard drive, because HDD activity continues after the  
appearance of the Plymouth screen and before the computer shuts itself off.