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

[Adam Stokes]

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #519356
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519356

** Also affects: busybox via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519356
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Changed in: busybox (Ubuntu Precise)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Adam Stokes (adam-stokes)

** Changed in: busybox (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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

** Changed in: busybox (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Adam Stokes (adam-stokes)

** Changed in: busybox (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: busybox (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: busybox (Ubuntu Precise)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-12.04.2

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

Status in BusyBox:
  Unknown
Status in “busybox” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “busybox” source package in Precise:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  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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