When ROS nodes/processes die, the indicated log file is never created.
[my_nodeman-1] process has died [pid 12043, exit code -11, cmd /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/nodelet/nodelet manager __name:=my_nodeman __log:=/home/jkordani/.ros/log/8e609390-846b-11ec-8d6c-0c96e6a96491/pcgc_nodeman-1.log].
log file: /home/jkordani/.ros/log/8e609390-846b-11ec-8d6c-0c96e6a96491/my_nodeman-1*.log
Often when I encounter errors like these, the log file name never exists. The log folder has logs in it, but not any mentioned by name, so I don't know which file to look through (if there ever really is a specific log file created.
In this case, this node was launched from a launch file. So there are lots of roslaunch*.logs and a rosout/rosout-1-stdout.log which capture the message above that is printed to the console. So what is up with this file?