On Wednesday 17 March 2010 08:00:47 am you wrote: > Hi Alberto, > > I promised to share some tools and ideas on tools for triaging -nvidia > bugs. > > I've been accumulating my scripts in the arsenal project here: > > http://code.launchpad.net/arsenal/ >
Thanks a lot for pointing me to the code. > > > Now for some ideas of more tools that would be nice to have: > > Xorg.0.log grepper: Sarvatt had this idea. Give it some string and > have the script search all Xorg.0.log files attached to bugs in a given > source package, and list out the bug #'s. pci-extract.py could be a > good starting point for such a script since it is parsing through > attachments for info. > > Check for manually-installed-nvidia: Use the Xorg.0.log grepper to look > for nvidia package versions that were not shipped in Ubuntu, or other > evidence that the reporter has installed nvidia manually from the web. > Close the bug report with a kindly word about how we don't support > configurations with externally obtained nvidia drivers, and point them > at the nvidia forums. > > Nvidia crash traces: We collect backtraces on nvidia bugs but in a lot > of cases it's clear from the trace that we'd never be able to debug > them. It seems these ought to be detectable. The reports should be > closed and the reporter redirected to report the issue directly to > nvidia via the forums. > These ideas would definitely save us a lot of time. Regards, -- Alberto Milone Sustaining Engineer (system) Foundations Team Canonical OEM Services -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
