| jibel | anyone knows why 'tail -f /var/log/syslog' doesnt work on a live cd ? by "doesn't work" I mean that data appended to the file is not displayed. | 08:45 |
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| jibel | and with any file, not only syslog of course. | 08:46 |
| cjwatson | jibel: broken inotify support in overlayfs I think | 09:02 |
| cjwatson | kernel bug | 09:02 |
| jibel | thanks, will report | 09:03 |
| cjwatson | I thought that was known ... | 09:14 |
| * cjwatson checks | 09:14 | |
| cjwatson | yes, bug 882147 | 09:14 |
| ubot2 | Launchpad bug 882147 in linux "overlayfs does not implement inotify interfaces correctly" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/882147 | 09:14 |
| jibel | ah thanks for the link. I'll use another method to collect the logs. | 09:24 |
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| stgraber | jibel: the ugly "watch tail -n 60 /var/log/syslog" works pretty well here (adjusting -n depending on screen size obviously) | 16:42 |
| jibel | stgraber, not in that case. I used it to collect syslog of the automated testing and redirect the output to ttyS0 | 16:47 |
| jibel | stgraber, I changed it to modifying the configuration of rsyslog to write to ttyS0 with a casper hook and I'm now also redirecting the console. | 16:49 |
| stgraber | ah yeah, won't work too well in your case indeed | 16:49 |
| jibel | this way we collect boot and shutdown messages. | 16:49 |
| stgraber | cool | 16:49 |
| jibel | stgraber, now I need to upgrade the grub entry and rsyslog conf after installation in order to keep collecting information after reboot for post-installation tests. | 16:53 |
| jibel | s/upgrade/update | 16:53 |
| CarlFK | https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/installation-guide/i386/preseed-advanced.html says "... but still have the question asked" | 16:55 |
| CarlFK | "d-i preseed/late_command seen false" doesn't seem to be working for me. | 16:55 |
| cjwatson | CarlFK: that question is *never* asked | 16:56 |
| CarlFK | cjwatson: k - i figured it was something like that. | 16:56 |
| cjwatson | 'seen false' doesn't magically create a place where never-asked questions are asked | 16:56 |
| cjwatson | it merely inhibits the normal way that preseeding prevents questions from being asked | 16:56 |
| cjwatson | I can't imagine any realistic value in asking preseed/late_command | 16:57 |
| cjwatson | in other words, all 'seen false' does is restore the state of affairs to if you hadn't preseeded that question at all, except presumably you've given the question some different default | 16:58 |
| CarlFK | I was trying to use it to figure out why my late_command was failing | 16:58 |
| cjwatson | "set -x; " at the start and then watch syslog | 16:59 |
| cjwatson | ... is what I'd do | 16:59 |
| CarlFK | d-i preseed/late_command string set -e && chroot /target apt-get install --force-yes --assume-yes squid-deb-proxy-client | 17:02 |
| CarlFK | apparently one of the scripts errors | 17:02 |
| CarlFK | and the -e bubbles it up - otherwise it is ignorred, and all seems to work ok anyway. | 17:03 |
| CarlFK | i guess that should that be reported against squid-deb-proxy-client | 17:03 |
| cjwatson | CarlFK: 'set -e' only has any effect at all in the shell you run it in; in the example you just gave it's a no-op, because the shell would exit after the second command anyway | 17:30 |
| CarlFK | cjwatson: that will halt the install - so i guess the shell exits with an error code | 17:32 |
| CarlFK | remove the -e, and the install doesn't halt | 17:32 |
| CarlFK | which is reasonable behavior | 17:32 |
| cjwatson | the shell should exit with an error code if its last command exits non-zero *anyway* | 17:34 |
| cjwatson | $ sh -c 'true; false'; echo $? | 17:34 |
| cjwatson | 1 | 17:34 |
| CarlFK | good point. I will swear I needed the -e. easy to test... just takes 20 min | 17:35 |
| kyleN | ev, hi. how do I make ubiquity-frontend run on first boot? (is there something like oem-config-prepare I need to run in the image build chroot?) | 20:19 |
| kyleN | gtk | 20:19 |
| ev | kyleN install ubiquity-frontend-gtk in the image and put maybe-ubiquity in the kernel command line | 20:19 |
| kyleN | ev, will do. thx | 20:20 |
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