Bug 1577082

Summary:	troubleshooting tool provides bogus command for journalctl
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tomáš Hozza <thozza>
Component:	system-config-printer	Assignee:	Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	29	CC:	jpopelka, twaugh, zdohnal
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Description Tomáš Hozza 2018-05-11 07:41:15 UTC

Description of problem:
I'm trying to troubleshoot problem with HP-LaserJet-Professional-P-1102w printer. When using troubleshooting using s-c-p, it asked me to run journalctl command to get logs, because of using unprivileged user.

The command was:
su -c 'journalctl -u cups.service --since="None" --until="2018-05-11 09:31:37"' > troubleshoot-logs.txt

I changed it to:
sudo journalctl -u cups.service --since="None" --until="2018-05-11 09:31:37" > troubleshoot-logs.txt

However journalctl says that it does not know timestamp None.

$ sudo journalctl -u cups.service --since="None" --until="2018-05-11 09:31:37" > troubleshoot-logs.txt
[sudo] password for xxx: 
Failed to parse timestamp: None

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-printer-1.5.9-4.fc26.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. described above

Actual results:
s-c-p provides command which is obviously wrong.

Expected results:
s-c-p should provide command that works

Additional info:
I'm experiencing this on F26, but reporting it against rawhide, because I don't see any relevant change in RPM changelog in recent versions. And I would like to make sure this bug is not mass-closed soon.

Comment 1 Zdenek Dohnal 2018-05-11 09:41:42 UTC

Hi,

thank you  for reporting this issue! I was able to reproduce the issue. I'll look into it.

Comment 2 Zdenek Dohnal 2018-05-11 12:03:00 UTC

Traceback, which is related to the error:

/usr/share/system-config-printer/timedops.py:82: Warning: Source ID 1184 was not found when attempting to remove it
  GLib.source_remove (self.wait_source)
Traceback:
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/troubleshoot/__init__.py", line 316, in _collect_answer
    answer = question.collect_answer ()
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/troubleshoot/ErrorLogCheckpoint.py", line 143, in collect_answer
    self.op.run ()
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/timedops.py", line 211, in run
    return self.thread.collect_result ()
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/timedops.py", line 164, in collect_result
    raise self.exception
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/timedops.py", line 152, in run
    self.result = self.target (*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/authconn.py", line 227, in <lambda>
    return lambda *args, **kwds: self._authloop (fname, fn, *args, **kwds)
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/authconn.py", line 245, in _authloop
    result = fn.__call__ (*args, **kwds)
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/cupspk.py", line 422, in getFile
    *args, **kwds)
File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/cupspk.py", line 112, in _call_with_pk_and_fallback
    return fallback_function(*args, **kwds)
TypeError: argument 2 must be str, not _io.BufferedRandom

There should be timestamp instead of value None. This timestamp is taken when troubleshooter starts, but it doesn't do that for a reason.

Comment 3 Jan Kurik 2018-08-14 10:59:32 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
Changing version to '29'.

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 20:45:27 UTC

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Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 19:21:35 UTC

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