### 2.3.1. Task Failures

The log file for shell tasks is available in `${WORKDIR}/temp/log.do_taskname.pid`. For example, the `compile` task for the QEMU minimal image for the x86 machine (`qemux86`) might be `tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal-1.0-r0/temp/log.do_compile.20830`. To see what BitBake runs to generate that log, look at the corresponding `run.do_taskname.pid` file located in the same directory.

Presently, the output from Python tasks is sent directly to the console.