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Darrell Anderson

4 Sep 2012 4 Sep '12

9:33 p.m.

What is a good way to address xsession log spew? Many messages are helpful for debugging, but under normal usage clutters the xsession log.

The messages should be toggled by the user as needed. Some examples:

[tdeinit] Got EXEC_NEW....

[tdeinit] PID xxxx terminated.

[tdeinit] Got SETENV....

[tdeinit] xxxx is executable and not a library. Launching with exec.

When I look at these messages in kinit.cpp I notice they are fprintf(stderr) messages and many are conditional, based upon #ifndef NDEBUG. Is NDEBUG a compile-time variable (meaning "No debug"), or is this variable configurable during run-time as an environment variable?

What options exist to reduce this spew?

Darrell

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Calvin Morrison

4 Sep 4 Sep

9:38 p.m.

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On 4 September 2012 17:33, Darrell Anderson humanreadable@yahoo.com wrote:

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What is a good way to address xsession log spew? Many messages are helpful for debugging, but under normal usage clutters the xsession log.

The messages should be toggled by the user as needed. Some examples:

[tdeinit] Got EXEC_NEW....

[tdeinit] PID xxxx terminated.

[tdeinit] Got SETENV....

[tdeinit] xxxx is executable and not a library. Launching with exec.

When I look at these messages in kinit.cpp I notice they are fprintf(stderr) messages and many are conditional, based upon #ifndef NDEBUG. Is NDEBUG a compile-time variable (meaning "No debug"), or is this variable configurable during run-time as an environment variable?

What options exist to reduce this spew?

Darrell

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is it related at all to the kdedebugdialog options? just an idea

Darrell Anderson

9:40 p.m.

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is it related at all to the kdedebugdialog options? just an idea

Not that I see. The messages are fprintf(stderr) and not kdedebug (xxxx) messages. As I'm not a C++ coder I'm looking at examples to see whether some of these can be converted, although I don't know the correct kdedebug category.

Darrell

Darrell Anderson

5 Sep 5 Sep

12:58 a.m.

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The messages should be toggled by the user as needed. Some examples:

[tdeinit] Got EXEC_NEW....

[tdeinit] PID xxxx terminated.

[tdeinit] Got SETENV....

[tdeinit] xxxx is executable and not a library. Launching with exec.

I'm testing a patch with three of the fprintf messages converted to kdDebug. One fprintf message has me stumped. I would appreciate help converting this message to kdDebug:

fprintf(stderr, "[tdeinit] Got %s '%s' from %s.\n", (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXEC ? "EXEC" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXT_EXEC ? "EXT_EXEC" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXEC_NEW ? "EXEC_NEW" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_SHELL ? "SHELL" : "KWRAPPER" )))), name, launcher ? "launcher" : "socket" );

Thanks.

By the way, in the est patch I created a new kdDebug area: 182 tdecore(kinit).

Darrell

Serghei Amelian

8:07 a.m.

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On Wednesday 05 September 2012 03:58:16 Darrell Anderson wrote:

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The messages should be toggled by the user as needed. Some examples:

[tdeinit] Got EXEC_NEW....

[tdeinit] PID xxxx terminated.

[tdeinit] Got SETENV....

[tdeinit] xxxx is executable and not a library. Launching with exec.

I'm testing a patch with three of the fprintf messages converted to kdDebug. One fprintf message has me stumped. I would appreciate help converting this message to kdDebug:
 fprintf(stderr, "[tdeinit] Got %s '%s' from %s.\n",
    (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXEC ? "EXEC" :
    (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXT_EXEC ? "EXT_EXEC" :
    (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXEC_NEW ? "EXEC_NEW" :
    (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_SHELL ? "SHELL" : "KWRAPPER" )))),
     name, launcher ? "launcher" : "socket" );
Thanks.

The simplest way:

QString msg; msg.sprintf("[tdeinit] Got %s '%s' from %s.\n", (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXEC ? "EXEC" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXT_EXEC ? "EXT_EXEC" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXEC_NEW ? "EXEC_NEW" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_SHELL ? "SHELL" : "KWRAPPER" )))), name, launcher ? "launcher" : "socket" ); kdDebug() << msg;

-- Serghei

Darrell Anderson

7:47 p.m.

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The simplest way:

QString msg; msg.sprintf("[tdeinit] Got %s '%s' from %s.\n", (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXEC ? "EXEC" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXT_EXEC ? "EXT_EXEC" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXEC_NEW ? "EXEC_NEW" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_SHELL ? "SHELL" : "KWRAPPER" )))), name, launcher ? "launcher" : "socket" ); kdDebug() << msg;

Thank you!

Now the remaining problem is I can't get the messages to appear at all. :(

Darrell

Serghei Amelian

7:50 p.m.

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On Wednesday 05 September 2012 22:47:52 Darrell Anderson wrote:

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The simplest way:

QString msg; msg.sprintf("[tdeinit] Got %s '%s' from %s.\n", (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXEC ? "EXEC" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXT_EXEC ? "EXT_EXEC" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_EXEC_NEW ? "EXEC_NEW" : (request_header.cmd == LAUNCHER_SHELL ? "SHELL" : "KWRAPPER" )))), name, launcher ? "launcher" : "socket" ); kdDebug() << msg;

Thank you!

Now the remaining problem is I can't get the messages to appear at all. :(

I think this can be controlled by kdebugdialog.

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Darrell

-- Serghei

Darrell Anderson

7:56 p.m.

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Now the remaining problem is I can't get the messages

to appear at all. :(

I think this can be controlled by kdebugdialog.

Yes, but I haven't figured out the process works.

I set the following in the global kdebugrc:

# KInit debug info off [182] InfoOutput=4

That part seems to be working because the messages no longer appear. When I run kdebugdialog and enable the new 182 area, those new messages still do not appear.

I tried changing the global kdebugrc:

# KInit debug info off [182] InfoOutput=2

I restarted Trinity. Still no 182 messages.

Darrell

Serghei Amelian

8:03 p.m.

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On Wednesday 05 September 2012 22:56:28 Darrell Anderson wrote:

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Now the remaining problem is I can't get the messages

to appear at all. :(

I think this can be controlled by kdebugdialog.

Yes, but I haven't figured out the process works.

I set the following in the global kdebugrc:

# KInit debug info off [182] InfoOutput=4

That part seems to be working because the messages no longer appear. When I run kdebugdialog and enable the new 182 area, those new messages still do not appear.

I tried changing the global kdebugrc:

# KInit debug info off [182] InfoOutput=2

I restarted Trinity. Still no 182 messages.

Darrell

If i'm not wrong, kdDebug() means "0". Or you use kdDebug(182)?

-- Serghei

Darrell Anderson

8:10 p.m.

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If i'm not wrong, kdDebug() means "0". Or you use kdDebug(182)?

Yes, in the patch I am using kdDebug(182) for all of the changes.

Darrell

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