[Bug 1693948] Re: useless diagnostics from journalctl due to ellipses

[Brian Murray]

The manual for journalctl for artful indicates that the default should
be the full line.

       --no-full, --full, -l
           Ellipsize fields when they do not fit in available columns. The default is to show full fields, allowing them to wrap or be truncated by the pager, if one is used.

           The old options -l/--full are not useful anymore, except to
undo --no-full.

Do you happen to know from which release the crash report you saw had
ellipsized lines?

** Tags added: rls-bb-incoming

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Title:
  useless diagnostics in DpkgTerminalLog from journalctl due to ellipses

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Many of the apport hooks try to include some information about why a
  service didn't start correctly. One recent report included the
  following:

  May 26 18:39:19 ux305ua-linux systemd[1]: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell serv....
  May 26 18:39:19 ux305ua-linux sshd[2500]: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 64: miss....
  May 26 18:39:19 ux305ua-linux systemd[1]: ssh.service: Main process exited, ...a
  May 26 18:39:19 ux305ua-linux systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenBSD Secure She....
  May 26 18:39:19 ux305ua-linux systemd[1]: ssh.service: Unit entered failed s....
  May 26 18:39:19 ux305ua-linux systemd[1]: ssh.service: Failed with result 'e....
  Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

  
  The actual error information is this:

  /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 64: miss....
  and
  Failed with result 'e....

  This is very nearly useless.

  We should include the -l parameter as suggested so that we stand a
  chance of seeing an error that doesn't occur in the first twenty
  characters of program output.

  Thanks

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