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

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This bug was fixed in the package busybox - 1:1.19.3-7ubuntu1.1

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busybox (1:1.19.3-7ubuntu1.1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Timo Juhani Lindfors ]
  * increase the maximum supported log line length from 256 to 512
    bytes. (Closes: #519356, LP: #1040900)
 -- Adam Stokes <adam.stokes at canonical.com>   Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:11:14 -0400

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

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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 Released
Status in “busybox” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released
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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