Plans for new bootchart in Debian?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Hi. What are your plans for bootchart in Debian? Are you aware of
the work that has been done in Ubuntu, extending bootchart to chart
the work being done in the initrd and collecting information a bit
further after boot to also log the starting of the desktop
environment?

The RC bug in BTS should probably be adressed too. Reassigned or
closed, or something. It is a complete mystery to me. :)

Happy hacking,

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Hi, J?rg. Did you get this email? I have not seen any reply.

[Petter Reinholdtsen 2009-08-23]

Post by Petter Reinholdtsen
Hi. What are your plans for bootchart in Debian? Are you aware of
the work that has been done in Ubuntu, extending bootchart to chart
the work being done in the initrd and collecting information a bit
further after boot to also log the starting of the desktop
environment?
The RC bug in BTS should probably be adressed too. Reassigned or
closed, or something. It is a complete mystery to me. :)

I plan to NMU bootchart shortly to solve #543280. JFYI.

Happy hacking,

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[J?rg Sommer]

Yes, I've got your mail and I'll send you an aswer to your questions
tomorrow. Excuse me, for the delay.

Great to see that you are still around and that the email address work. :)

For the current boot and login speed work, it would be nice if
bootchart collected information from the initrd execution, and also a
bit after the boot when autologon is enabled (to measure until the
desktop is ready to be used).

The former is already available in Ubuntu. Not sure if the latter is
robustly working in Ubuntu, but suspect just adding a 10-20 second
delay to the bootchart collection termination might be enough.

Happy hacking,

[Jörg Sommer]

Hi Petter,

Post by Petter Reinholdtsen
Hi, J?rg. Did you get this email? I have not seen any reply.

Yes, I've got your mail and I'll send you an aswer to your questions
tomorrow. Excuse me, for the delay.

Sch?ne Gr??e, J?rg.
--
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Sie ziehen Dich auf ihr Niveau herab und schlagen Dich dann mit
Erfahrung.
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[Jörg Sommer]

Hello Petter,

Post by Petter Reinholdtsen
Hi. What are your plans for bootchart in Debian?

I've planed an update of the package for a long time, but I'm too busy. I
had a crash of my iBook and trouble to get a connection to the internet.

Post by Petter Reinholdtsen
Are you aware of the work that has been done in Ubuntu, extending
bootchart to chart the work being done in the initrd and collecting
information a bit further after boot to also log the starting of the
desktop environment?

Yes, I know this. But, IIRC, they did kill and start a new bootchart when
it comes to the switch form the initrd to the root fs. Twelve month ago,
I've commited a suggestion how it can be done better, but neigther Ziga
nor someone else ever gave a comment about it. Maybe, it's better to
package this version and wait for bug reports. ;-)

http://bootchart.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bootchart/trunk/?view=log

Post by Petter Reinholdtsen
The RC bug in BTS should probably be adressed too. Reassigned or
closed, or something. It is a complete mystery to me. :)

It should become closed. :) These bugs in the bootchart daemon are really
difficult to debug. The ?return: 24: Illegal number:? sounds like a
problem of bootchart, but it should not lock the system nor HAL nor can
the PATH=, DAEMON= and PIDDIR= lines come from bootchart. I have to take
a look at the code, but I doubt there's anything I can do.

Maybe on the upcoming weekend, I have time to take care for bootchart and
find out why svn407-4 stuck in the RFS queue
http://alioth.debian.org/~jo-guest/debian/bootchart_0.10~svn407-4.dsc

Bye, J?rg.
--
- StGB ? 328 Absatz 2, Nr. 3: Mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu
f?nf Jahren oder mit Geldstrafe wird bestraft, wer eine
nukleare Explosion verursacht.
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[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[J?rg Sommer]

Post by Jörg Sommer
Hello Petter,

Hi. :)

Post by Jörg Sommer
Yes, I know this. But, IIRC, they did kill and start a new bootchart
when it comes to the switch form the initrd to the root fs. Twelve
month ago, I've commited a suggestion how it can be done better, but
neigther Ziga nor someone else ever gave a comment about it. Maybe,
it's better to package this version and wait for bug reports. ;-)

Personally I would prefer a version that benchmark the initrd and some
time after the last init.d script a lot over the current version, so
yeah. :)

Post by Jörg Sommer
Maybe on the upcoming weekend, I have time to take care for
bootchart and find out why svn407-4 stuck in the RFS queue
http://alioth.debian.org/~jo-guest/debian/bootchart_0.10~svn407-4.dsc

I assume you are aware of my sponsoring preferences,
<URL: http://www.hungry.com/~pere/debian-sponsoring.html >. if you
lack a sponsor.

Happy hacking,

[Jörg Sommer]

Hi Petter,

Post by Petter Reinholdtsen
Happy hacking,

I'll going into holiday for the next ten days. So don't expect any
activities from my side. Please, do any necessary NMUs.

Bye, J?rg.
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Der kommt den G?ttern am n?chsten, der auch dann schweigen kann,
wenn er im Recht ist. (Cato; 234?149 v. Chr.)
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