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apport package

apport hides systemd postinst service start failure error messages

Bug #1587791 reported by Robie Basak
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Bug Description

See bug 1587695 for example. Expected: amavis' failure reason in the original bug report. Actual: we are only told that it failed, not why, which systemd knows anyway and which the service correctly reported.

This is a regression from before systemd-boot, since before DpkgTerminalLog contained the message.

This problem hinders bug triage.

Tags: systemd-boot
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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

10:41 <pitti> rbasak: hm, no amavis messages in https://launchpadlibrarian.net/262668434/JournalErrors.txt, so I'm not sure if that'd actually help

10:41 <pitti> rbasak: might be that this is a forking service which only outputs to log files, not to stdout/err?

10:42 <pitti> rbasak: ah, wait, this only shows messags with priority >= warning, so maybe that's why

10:42 <pitti> rbasak: yeah, I guess we can amend the ubuntu hook for package failures to include the status

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

In my example, "systemctl status amavis" did show me the error, so presumably if systemd has it this is because the init.d script did output the error to stdout or stderr. So I guess it's the priority as pitti suggests.

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

Could this be fixed by the solution for bug 1596056?

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