On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 17:18 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I'd like to have our bug script gather more system information.
>
> - Hardware model identification:
>
> For x86:
> (cd /sys/class/dmi/id && grep .
> {sys,product,chassis,bios,board}_{vendor,name,version}) 2>/dev/null
Done.
> I don't about other architectures but I imagine some identification is
> available for most of them in /proc or /sys.
ia64 has DMI just like x86; everything else appears to have
identification in /proc/cpuinfo, so I've used that.
> - BIOS vs EFI booting:
>
> Probably some useful information under /sys/firmware/efi
I don't remember seeing any bug reports where this would be useful, so
not done.
> - USB device ids:
>
> lsusb 2>&1
Done.
> - Filesystem configuration:
>
> Ask if it's a filesystem problem first?
> cat /etc/mtab
> (possibly filtered to hide file server hostnames)
Not sure how useful this is, so not done.
> - Network configuration:
>
> Ask if it's a network problem first? Solarflare's script to report
> network configuration for support requests uses:
> ip address show
> cat /etc/network/interfaces
Done.
> grep . /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_*
Not that useful.
> netstat -s
Done.
> arp -n
> route -n
> tc -s qdisc sho
Not that useful.
> and for each interface:
> ethtool
> ethtool -a
> ethtool -c
> ethtool -k
> ethtool -S
Unfortunately these require CAP_NET_ADMIN (i.e. running as root).
However, I have included the device feature flags which show most of the
possible offloads, and the basic device statistics from /proc/net/dev.
> This could be considered slightly excessive for a general purpose
> script...
>
> - Module installation:
>
> dpkg-query -W --showformat '${Status}\t${Package}\t${Version}\n'
> "*-modules-$RELEASE"
Not all that useful any more.
> - Firmware installation:
>
> dpkg-query -W --showformat '${Status}\t${Package}\t${Version}\n'
> 'firmware-*'
I added all the current firmware package names to the Package-Status
field in the control file.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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