Accessing log messages of Hydrogen - hydrogen-music/hydrogen GitHub Wiki

The log messages of Hydrogen do help us a lot when debugging your issues. Especially when it comes to crashes or problems during startup.

You can tell Hydrogen to create them by starting the application as described below and than just copy & paste all output into your issue.

macOS and Linux

Open a terminal and start Hydrogen using the following command

hydrogen -VDebug

Windows

Open the Command Prompt

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and enter the following command:

start /b "" "C:\Program Files\Hydrogen\hydrogen.exe" --verbose "DEBUG"

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OS-independent

You can also set the log level and open the log form within Hydrogen. If you struggle with the approaches above, this might be your way to go. However, since the log level is not set from the beginning you might miss some important messages during startup.

  1. Set the log level

Debug Level

  1. Try to reproduce the behaviour you want to report

  2. Open the log

Log File