システムログは、adb shell やターミナルエミュレータ(要root権限)で logcat コマンドを実行すること確認できる。
$ logcat --------- beginning of /dev/log/system I/Vold ( 910): Vold 2.1 (the revenge) firing up D/Vold ( 910): Volume sdcard state changing -1 (Initializing) -> 0 (No-Media) D/Vold ( 910): Volume usb0 state changing -1 (Initializing) -> 0 (No-Media) D/Vold ( 910): Volume usb1 state changing -1 (Initializing) -> 0 (No-Media) D/Vold ( 910): Volume usbdisk state changing -1 (Initializing) -> 0 (No-Media) D/Vold ( 910): Volume sdcard state changing 0 (No-Media) -> 1 (Idle-Unmounted) W/Vold ( 910): Duplicate state (1) W/Vold ( 910): No UMS switch available I/SystemServer( 981): Entered the Android system server! I/SystemServer( 981): Entropy Service I/SystemServer( 981): Power Manager I/SystemServer( 981): Activity Manager I/ActivityManager( 981): Memory class: 32 I/SystemServer( 981): Telephony Registry I/SystemServer( 981): Package Manager I/Installer( 981): connecting...
左の大文字アルファベットはメッセージの重要度/緊急度(priority)を意味する。
- V: Verbose (重要でない)
- D: Debug (デバッグ時に役に立つかもしれない)
- I: Info (エラーでは無いが重要)
- W: Warn (エラーでは無いが、今後何らかの問題を引き起こすかもしれない)
- E: Error (何らかの問題がある)
- F: Fatal (致命的な問題がある)
logcat のヘルプ
# logcat -h unknown option -- hUnrecognized Option Usage: logcat [options] [filterspecs] options include: -s Set default filter to silent. Like specifying filterspec '*:s' -f <filename> Log to file. Default to stdout -r [<kbytes>] Rotate log every kbytes. (16 if unspecified). Requires -f -n <count> Sets max number of rotated logs to <count>, default 4 -v <format> Sets the log print format, where <format> is one of: brief process tag thread raw time threadtime long -c clear (flush) the entire log and exit -d dump the log and then exit (don't block) -t <count> print only the most recent <count> lines (implies -d) -g get the size of the log's ring buffer and exit -b <buffer> request alternate ring buffer ('main' (default), 'radio', 'events') -B output the log in binary filterspecs are a series of <tag>[:priority] where <tag> is a log component tag (or * for all) and priority is: V Verbose D Debug I Info W Warn E Error F Fatal S Silent (supress all output) '*' means '*:d' and <tag> by itself means <tag>:v If not specified on the commandline, filterspec is set from ANDROID_LOG_TAGS. If no filterspec is found, filter defaults to '*:I' If not specified with -v, format is set from ANDROID_PRINTF_LOG or defaults to "brief"
※ -h オプションは logcat には無い...