Where are the crash information stored?

[Joel Goguen]

The crash reports themselves are stored in /var/crash/.  You can unpack
them into a directory using 'apport-unpack' and view the various parts
of the crash report.

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 17:55 +0000, Michele wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I had a couple of bad crashes in the past two days and I would like to
> know which log I should look into to try to figure out what happened
> or at least to try to isolate the problem.
> 
> In one particular occasion I could go to tty1 but every time I tried
> to log in after inserting the password the terminal was filling up
> with garb... ehm.. I mean useful information, and then I was asked for
> the username again. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michele

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Joel Goguen
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protein -- it rejects it.  -- P. Medawar
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