If you find yourself–like me–in the situation that your Mac has crashed and you want to retrieve the crash reports (some call them logs 😉 )? Well, there are basically two ways.
You can look them up with the “Console” tool (find it in
/Applications/Utilities/Console
or with Spotlight). Open the “System Diagnostic Reports” section on the left and find an entry similar to
Kernel_<date>_<your_pc_name>.panic
at the top.
You can also find these reports as text files under
/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports
with the same names. OS X will open them with the Console tool per default.
Cheers. 😀