On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:43:57PM +0000, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> I have been very frustrated with journalctl. The manual page is very >>> unhelpful in that regard. For example the other day, I wanted to >>> investigate why my laptop shutdown suddenly (I think it was >>> overheating), but there was no reasonable way for me to filter the cpu >>> specific messages. Could you give some pointers how I can do that? I >>> would be very grateful. >> >> Perhaps "journalctl _KERNEL_SUBSYSTEM=<subsystem>" >> >> acpi for power? > > That does filter the output, but not the messages I was looking for. > Looking at /var/log/messages tells me the lines should be something like > this: > > kernel: [381990.959785] CPU3: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 38) > > But I still can't find where it says shutting down. Anyway, what > subsystem is the above? Also how can I limit it to kernel messages from > all subsystems? > > Thanks for your response, You're welcome. "acpi" had been a guess! I scratched my head, read the journalctl man page, and found "-F": # journalctl -F _KERNEL_SUBSYSTEM platform scsi pnp pci pci_bus acpi -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org