# Gathering Logs

# GearDump automated log gathering

GearDump is an automated log collection tool to help boost the debugging process on user-reported issues. It was originally made for GearLock but now it can be helpful for the whole operating-system log collection as well.

Press ALT+F1 or use any terminal emulator/tty.
If you can't boot into the android-GUI then get into recovery mode from your grub menu and open Virtual Command Terminal there.
Run geardump command.
Then you can find the zipball at both /data and at the root of your operating-system-Partition. You may grab it from one of these suitable locations in your favor.

# Manual log gathering

Manual log gathering is useful when you can not run geardump.

First of all you will need to get into a terminal where you can execute commands.

Press Alt + F1 or fn + Alt + F1(laptop)

If that is not working then install TermOneplus app and open it.

Then run su in TermOneplus app.

Boot into recovery mode from grub
Select option 3. Open Virtual Command Terminal

We will create a directory and save all the logs there.

mkdir -p /data/mylogs
cd /data/mylogs

Now you can proceed with grabing logs from the components stated below.

# dmesg

dmesg > dmesg.log

# lsmod

lsmod > lsmod.log

# lsusb

lsusb > lsusb.log

# logcat

Warning

Logcat does not work in recovery-mode. Normally you can only run it after the android bootanimation. (Aka android-interface)

logcat > logcat.log

Assuming that you are in /data/mylogs directory as instructed above.

Run the following command while being in /data/mylogs:

tar -cf logs.tar *

Now lets find the archived logs.tar file for uploading to a dev

Run the following command in your terminal:

cp /data/mylogs/logs.tar /sdcard

Then you can find it on your Internal Storage from a file-manager.

Mount your Android-x86 partition
If you have a directory called data inside it then you should find logs.tar at data/mylogs
Or if you have data.img then mount it with the following command and look at dmount/mylogs for logs.tar:

mkdir dmount
sudo mount -oloop,ro data.img dmount

Open the folder where you have Android-x86 installed.
If you have data.img then use 7-zip to open it.
If you have data folder then open it normally.
Look for a folder called mylogs and you should find logs.tar there.

Ext4 on Windows

If you had installed Android-x86 inside an Ext4 partition from Windows then use the appropriate program to mount it. E.g Paragon LinuxFS, Ext2fsd