Daniel Chen wrote: > Hi, all, > > As the release of 10.04 LTS looms imminent, we should rework how we > ask for the collection of verbose PA logs used in troubleshooting. The > manual process currently outlined at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log has served its purpose. > Nowadays we should extend the apport hook in the pulseaudio source > package to do the procedure for us. (This e-mail is mostly a > braindump, as coding it at this hour isn't a good idea.) > > pacmd set-log-level 4 > <request that user perform steps to reproduce symptom> > grep pulseaudio\\[ /var/log/user.log > ~/verbose.log > <add ~/verbose.log to bug report> > pacmd set-log-level 2
I agree that it would be very helpful to collect the verbose PA logs automatically. A few assorted thoughts: * As a first simple step, we could consider dumping "pactl list" and/or "pactl stat" and add as apport data. * A problem with the above would be that startup data is not collected, i e bugs occurring at startup of PA won't be collected. * Checkbox could do what you suggest automatically during the audio tests. * I'm not a Linux logging guru just yet, and I'm not sure it is a good idea, but is it possible without too much time and trouble to have pulseaudio in a separate log? Just like I have five printer logs (lpr.log, lpr.log.1, and three zipped ones). That way one could have debug logging on all the time, without spamming the syslog. // David _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev Post to : ubuntu-audio-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
