Fix onie discover stopped while console XOFF is triggered#386
Fix onie discover stopped while console XOFF is triggered#386audihsu-qci wants to merge 1 commit intoopencomputeproject:masterfrom
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This patch print logs to files, which was printed to /dev/console directly
- tee_log_file to /var/log/onie-tee.log
- _log_console_msg to /var/log/onie-console.log
- /etc/rcS.d/S30console-logger.sh will tail these logs to /dev/console
Cause:
While XOFF is trigger with console port somehow, onie discover will stop
searching installer after a while.
Reproduce:
1. In console terminal, type CTRL+S to send XOFF
2. telnet/ssh to DUT, and tail -f /var/log/onie.log
3. The discover loop will stop searching after a while,
since linux kernel console buffer is full.
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Interesting. Good find. |
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| touch $console_log_file && /usr/bin/tail -f $console_log_file > /dev/console & |
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Looking for this whole patch, it seems we can simplify it a little bit.
Do we really need both $console_log_file and $tee_log_file?
It seems we only need $tee_log_file.
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Since there are _log_console_msg and other different log message levels, I shall keep the console_log_file and tee_log_file.
Unless the logging message definition is changed.
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Thinking about this a bit more.... Are we sure this is really a problem worth solving? Why would someone type ctrl-S on the serial console in the first place? This might be a problem for a developer who is working on ONIE, even that would rare. I don't see how this would ever impact an end user. My big concern with the new implementation is that we are creating two new log files that will grow without bound. We already have /var/log/onie.log that captures all the output Imagine this scenario:
That sounds bad to me. I think this is a "won't fix". What we should do, however, is make a note of the problem. Instead of a pull request with a fix, I will create an "issue" to track this problem. |
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I created #387 to track this issue. I do not think we will fix this problem, however. |
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This patch print logs to files, which was printed to /dev/console directly
- tee_log_file to /var/log/onie-tee.log
- _log_console_msg to /var/log/onie-console.log
- /etc/rcS.d/S30console-logger.sh will tail these logs to /dev/console
Cause:
While XOFF is trigger with console port somehow, onie discover will stop
searching installer after a while.
Reproduce:
1. In console terminal, type CTRL+S to send XOFF
2. telnet/ssh to DUT, and tail -f /var/log/onie.log
3. The discover loop will stop searching after a while,
since linux kernel console buffer is full.