Console app problem after 10.4.10?

[Christopher Wolf]

On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:16 PM, R.L. Grigg wrote:

> After applying the 10.4.10 OSX upgrade to a 2xG5 2GHz PPC PowerMac,  
> the Console application won't display the console or system log. It  
> used to. There is no window displayed, even though under "Window" in  
> the menu bar I select console.log, system.log, or "Bring All to  
> Front". Theres a file /var/log/system.log but no /var/log/ 
> console.log. All I did was upgrade to 10.4.10 and it stopped working.

The console.log never lived at /var/log/console.log - in 10.4 it's  
always bees stored at /Library/Logs/Console/<uid>/console.log.

The system.log does live at /var/log/system.log but is only readable  
by admin users.

(I don't think either of these things changed with 10.4.10...)

Can you read the log files at the above locations if you try using cat  
from the terminal or your favorite text-editor to open them?

Does quitting Console.app and moving aside ~/Library/Preferences/ 
com.apple.Console.plist help?

- Chris

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