Bug 444838
| Summary: | systool is passed deprcated arguments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Sage Grigull <mgrigull> |
| Component: | sos | Assignee: | Adam Stokes <astokes> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 5.1 | CC: | agk, azelinka, bmr, jplans |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | noarch | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-01-20 21:41:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 455298, 455918 | ||
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_11726.shtm has some of the information which assist using the systool effectivly The following patch should clear this up:
--- /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sos/plugins/devicemapper.py
2008-03-28 10:28:49.000000000 -0400
+++ /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sos/plugins/devicemapper.py2
2008-07-02 03:39:00.000000000 -0400
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
self.addCopySpec("/var/lib/multipath/bindings")
self.collectExtOutput("/sbin/multipath -v4 -ll")
- self.collectExtOutput("/usr/bin/systool -v -C -b scsi")
+ self.collectExtOutput("/usr/bin/systool -v -c -b scsi")
self.collectExtOutput("/bin/ls -laR /dev")
self.collectExtOutput("/bin/ls -laR /sys/block")
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0171.html |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20080409 Red Hat/1.5.0.12-15.el5_1 Firefox/1.5.0.12 Description of problem: 'sosreport' fails to collect information from systool due to deprecated arguments being passed to the systool program Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sos-1.7-9.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run sosreport on a system with scsi components 2. open sosreport 3. inspect /sos_commands/devicemapper/systool_-v_-C_-b_scsi 4. observe help/usage output instead of desired output Actual Results: /usr/bin/systool: invalid option -- C Usage: systool [<options> [device]] -a Show attributes -b <bus_name> Show a specific bus -c <class_name> Show a specific class -d Show only devices -h Show usage -m <module_name> Show a specific module -p Show path to device/driver -v Show all attributes with values -A <attribute_name> Show attribute value -D Show only drivers -P Show device's parent Expected Results: Bus = "scsi" Device = "0:0:0:0" Device path = "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0" delete = <store method only> device_blocked = "0" iocounterbits = "32" iodone_cnt = "0x6c0d6" ioerr_cnt = "0x5e" iorequest_cnt = "0x6c0d6" model = "WDC WD4000AAKS-0" queue_depth = "31" queue_type = "simple" rescan = <store method only> rev = "12.0" scsi_level = "6" state = "running" timeout = "60" type = "0" uevent = <store method only> vendor = "ATA " Device = "1:0:0:0" Device path = "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0" delete = <store method only> device_blocked = "0" iocounterbits = "32" iodone_cnt = "0x621f4" ioerr_cnt = "0x0" iorequest_cnt = "0x621f7" model = "DVD-RW DVR-212 " queue_depth = "1" queue_type = "none" rescan = <store method only> rev = "1.24" scsi_level = "6" state = "running" timeout = "0" type = "5" uevent = <store method only> vendor = "PIONEER " OR equivalent Additional info: the '-C' option should not be passed to versions of systool that do not observe it. Furthermore, return status from systool is ignored and _not_ logged in sosreport as a failure to run that component. To mitigate this effect (in GSS production support) the information has to be requested from the customer explicitly in addition to the sysreport.