From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262771AbVFWS3K (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:29:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262812AbVFWS3K (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:29:10 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.131]:42430 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262771AbVFWS27 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:28:59 -0400 Message-ID: <42BAFF62.708@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:28:50 -0700 From: Vara Prasad User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paolo Ciarrocchi CC: linux , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Script to help users to report a BUG References: <4d8e3fd30506191332264eb4ae@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30506191332264eb4ae@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: >Hi all, >what do you think about this simple idea of a script that could help >users to fill better BUG reports ? > >The usage is quite simple, put the attached file in >/usr/src/linux/scripts and then: > >[root@frodo scripts]# ./report-bug.sh /tmp/BUGREPORT/ >cat: /proc/scsi/scsi: No such file or directory > >[root@frodo scripts]# ls /tmp/BUGREPORT/ >cpuinfo.bug ioports.bug modules.bug software.bug >iomem.bug lspci.bug scsi.bug version.bug > >Now you can simply attach all the .bug files to the bugzilla report or >inline them in a email. > >The script is rude but it is enough to give you an idea of what I have in mind. > >Any comment ? > > > > Hi, We have a need for similar tool so that customers using Linux system can report the problem with as much information as they can about their system for someone to diagnose the problem efficiently. Customers wanted to run this one tool which gathers most useful information for all kinds of problems. To help in this process we have a tool developed by local university students. I would say the tool is in prototype stage. You can download the tool from the project website at http://sourceforge.net/projects/projectsynfo. Is the information this tool collects meets the need for what is discussed here? If not what changes you would like to see in the data collected? Currently the tool is written in "C", if people don't like this to be implemented in "C", please suggest the alternatives and we can make the required changes. Thanks, Vara Prasad