[Bug 1040900] Re: syslog messages truncated to 256 chars during debian-installer run

[Brian Murray]

Hello Mike, or anyone else affected,

Accepted busybox into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/busybox/1:1.19.3-7ubuntu1.1 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from
verification-needed to verification-done.  If it does not, change the
tag to verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing
will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: busybox (Ubuntu Quantal)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

** Changed in: busybox (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

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Title:
  syslog messages truncated to 256 chars during debian-installer run

Status in BusyBox:
  New
Status in “busybox” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “busybox” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed
Status in “busybox” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Committed
Status in “busybox” source package in Raring:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Users relying on busybox within their environment and attempting to do any sort of debugging of logs.

  [Test Case]
  Run the installer, parse logs from syslogd packaged within busybox.

  [Regression]
  Minimal, only doubling buffer size for syslogd within busybox.

  
  We're seeing syslog messages during installers runs truncated to 256 chars. This is annoying.

  Digging into the debian-installer source, its calling /sbin/syslogd
  from the initrd - this is a busybox binary. In the busybox source,
  there's a config variable CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOGD_READ_BUFFER_SIZE that
  defaults to 256. From the code, that looks to be the problem.

  Can we either -
  1. fix busybox to use a dynamic buffer, or
  2. bump the config variable up to 1024 or so?

  I'm perfectly happy with solution 2 :)

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