Parsing log files for test results

[Tim Gardner]

On 12/05/2011 03:29 PM, Marc Tardif wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> After a user has been running a proposed kernel for a couple days, I would
> like to parse the logs of the system to detect what parts of the kernel
> might have been tested implicitly during that period. These results could
> then be uploaded to Launchpad, with the consent of the user of course,
> without having to actually run tests manually. [1]
>
> First, I would like to consider suspending. I looked in /var/log/syslog
> where I found strings that could be parsed to detect a successful wakeup
> from suspend:
>
>    kernel: [  137.402845] ACPI: Waking up from system sleep state S3
>
> However, the problem is that syslog does not seem to contain the kernel
> version to validate that the proposed kernel is effectively being tested.
>
> So, I then discovered /var/log/pm-suspend.log which contained both the
> kernel version and the result of resuming from suspend:
>
>    Linux 200910-4253 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct...
>    [snip]
>    /var/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00kernel-change resume suspend: success.
>
> Second, I would also like to consider the same for hibernating. I looked
> at /var/log/pm-suspend.log which also seemed to contain the result of
> thawing from hibernate:
>
>    /var/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/000kernel-change thaw hibernate: success.
>
> Would you say that these are reliable ways to detect that suspend and
> hibernate were successful?
>
> 1. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/certify-planning/+spec/hardware-p-cert-sru-community
>

Marc - AFAIK those logs will continue to be created. However, I must 
point out that the kernel team doesn't own the pm-utils package.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com