Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

Error Log Locations

Choose Failsafe Session from the Solaris CDE Login screen's Option menu to bypass the normal Xsession startup to look at error logs and fix possible user dot file problems. Table 3–1 shows the error logs and their locations.

Table 3–1 Error Log Locations

Location 

Error Log 

/var/dt/Xerrors

Solaris CDE login window system errors prior to user login

HomeDirectory/.dt/startlog

Solaris CDE startup errors during Xsession, .dtprofile, .login, or .profile

HomeDirectory/.dt/errorlog

Solaris CDE errors after Xsession startup

HomeDirectory/.dt/sessionlogs

Directory of session logs for Session Manager and Window Manager errors

Some errors are also displayed in the System Console window. If the System Console window is not running, the fallback console log file name is wscon with the time/display code concatenated. For example:

/usr/tmp/wsconAAAa004EE:0.0