** Description changed: - In EC2 and other cloud platforms, the console data is programmatically - available. + === Begin SRU Information === + [Impact] + * When launching a cloud instance, the console log is extremely valuable + in debugging issues, and is often times all the data you have. + In Ubuntu automated tests [1], having timestamps on the console for + 'reboot' or 'halt' allows us to correlate logs from the instance + console and test harness. + + This change simply writes a message to /dev/console when a reboot or + shutdown occurs. + + [1] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Quantal/view/All%20Quantal/job + /quantal-server-ec2/ + + [Test Case] + * To demonstrate the usefulness, launch an instance, and then power it + off. After that, get the console log. You'll notice no timestamp + other than the kernel uptime timestamps that could help you to + determine when the instance was terminated. + + [Regression Potential] + * There is very little regression potential here. If this upstart job was + somehow buggy, it would just result in failure to write the message. + + [Other Info] + * Anything else you think is useful to include + * Anticipate questions from users, SRU, +1 maintenance, security teams and the Technical Board + * and address these questions in advance + + === End SRU Information === + + + In EC2 and other cloud platforms, the console data is programmatically available. Our tests in EC2 collect this console output on shutdown / reboot /terminate. The data is very useful. in cloud-init i've added timestamps to output so that information is available in the console log. One thing missing (which cloud-init has no hooks for) is 'shutdown' or 'reboot'. I'd like for upstart to write a message to /dev/console saying: - rebooting Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:52:45 -0400 + rebooting Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:52:45 -0400 or something like that. I'd be happy if the 'nih_info' messages in util/reboot.c had at timestamp on them, and got written to /dev/console by default (they do not seem to). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: upstart 1.5-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.5.0-2.2-generic 3.5.0-rc4 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.2.5-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jun 27 19:45:52 2012 ProcEnviron: - TERM=screen - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + TERM=screen + LANG=en_US.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: upstart UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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