I am seeing error messages on the screen as I put the system into and out of
suspension. The error messages are either an accumulation of all of the
times
the system has been going into suspension since a reboot or several at each
session.
I have looked in /var/log and see several log files and of them have any
errors
shown. Are there other locations for error messages.

Is there an option I can set before issuing a restart/reboot command to
show or
save these messages to look at to see if there is a problem or what the
error is
so as to try to solve any possible trouble?

MH> I am seeing error messages on the screen as I put the system into
MH> and out of suspension.

Some examples of the error messages you are seeing would be a great
help here, also the version of Ubuntu and whether it's been upgraded
from a previous version or a clean install.

As I said I don't know what the error messages are, they flash on the screen
too fast to get much of anything.
I had started out with Ubuntu 10.04 and kept updating it. I was mostly
happy with
it. I then tried 10.10 on a different system, then 11.04 on the test
system, I didn't
like either of those. Then I was reading of good things about Mint 11,
so I bit the
bullet and did a fresh install of Mint 11 on the 10.04 system. That is
what I am using
on my main system. When putting the system into suspend mode, there is a
flash on the
screen of some sort of error message, single line several repeated, they
could be an
accumulation of the same error message over some days. When bringing the
system out
of suspension either the same messages displayed in a flash or new
messages.
It would be nice to find the error log for this so I could see what the
message is saying
to see if I want to pursue it further.
So thinking so far I haven't been about to find any such errors maybe I
could get the flash
to halt so I could read them, or take down the GUI and do a manual halt
of the system to
see if it comes to the screen then. So do I have to take the GUI down or
can I just do a system
halt from a terminal, that I can try to see what happens.

Any ideas?

Have you looked at the log files in /var/log/ ?

Especially, but not limited to /var/log/syslog

yes I have
looked at
all of the log files in /var/log.

More information, on this is that I have gotten a glimpse of the error
message
and it pertains to something like "softtest" or something like that. It
goes by
so fast as to be gone. Thus my question on manually taking the system
down. I
did try that and didn't see anything on the screen.
Is there any other place that log files are stored, I wouldn't think so.

If you have a camera or phone that records video, you can use it to catch
messages which zoom by.

Interesting idea and one worth trying. Might take a few goes to catch
the correct frame but it should work :-)

g> If you have a camera or phone that records video, you can use it to
g> catch messages which zoom by.