On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:15:53PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Nov 7, 2006 at 01:33:19 -0500, X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin > wrote: > > > Author: julien > > Date: 2006-11-07 01:33:19 -0500 (Tue, 07 Nov 2006) > > New Revision: 3962 > > > > Added: > > trunk/xserver/xorg-server/debian/xserver-xorg-core.bug.script > > Modified: > > trunk/xserver/xorg-server/debian/changelog > > trunk/xserver/xorg-server/debian/rules > > Log: > > * Add reportbug script stolen from the monolith, to add the user's config > > and log file in every bug report. > > > The Xorg.0.log on my laptop contains non-printable chars, for some > reason, and reportbug crashes because it tries to convert them to utf8 > (bug#398904). > If nobody objects, I think I'll commit the following patch: > > --- debian/xserver-xorg-core.bug.script (revision 3999) > +++ debian/xserver-xorg-core.bug.script (working copy) > @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ > ls -dl "$XORGCONFIG" >&3 > printf "\n" >&3 > printf "Contents of $XORGCONFIG:\n" >&3 > - cat "$XORGCONFIG" >&3 > + iconv -c -t ascii "$XORGCONFIG" >&3 > printf "\n" >&3 > else > printf "$XORGCONFIG does not exist.\n" >&3 > --- > This should make sure that any non-ascii characters from the log file > are stripped from what's output to reportbug. > Also, it would be nice if there was a way to gzip the log and attach it, > instead of just appending it to the report, since it can be quite large > and potentially not make it to the list because of that (my log file > seems to be around 100k). Does anyone know if there is a way to do that?
You may be able to just pipe it to gzip, although you'd have to test it to be sure. I have no real experience with reportbug scripts though, so I can't really tell you how to do that. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
