[systemd-devel] systemd-analyze-197 broken

[Peeters Simon]

2013/1/15 Peeters Simon <peeters.simon at gmail.com>:
> 2013/1/15 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>:
>> 'Twas brillig, and Kok, Auke-jan H at 14/01/13 23:55 did gyre and gimble:
>>>> > does systemd really need to introduce one 3rd party component
>>>> > after the next (libmicrohttpd as example) which will sooner
>>>> > or later terrible break due incompatible changes in this minefiled
>>> I don't think it's as bad as you portray it, but I have an intern
>>> software engineer that I will be making systemd-analyze (the non-plot
>>> parts - the plot parts should be replaced by bootchart IMO) rewrite in
>>> C, so hopefully we can put some of this behind us soon enough.
>
> I had a couple of hours time today and couldn't resist hacking a bit on .
> It is a quiet literal translation of the python script with some
> infrastructure copy-pasted from other places in systemd, and it still
> misses most error checking, but it works :)
>
> Værsågod, Alsjeblieft, Voici, Bitte and Here you are:
> https://gist.github.com/4539003
>
>> I find the systemd-analyze plots pretty useful generally. It would be a
>> shame to drop it in favour of bootchart if bootchart still requires a
>> separate init to be run. i.e. "I've got a problem on this boot right
>> now, I'd like a quick graphical representation of it please!" type use
>> cases.
>>
>> I agree in principle with the other posts: i.e. less python deps if
>> possible (it's just writing an svg? It's just XML why does it need a
>> whole python backend??) and more useful information about timeouts and
>> failed jobs etc. etc.
>
> it in deed would be just writing the xml (like bootchart does), but
> the current implementation uses cairo to do this, and those svg files
> are horrible. If i have some time left i can look into this (this is
> actually just mixing the drawing part of bootchart with the code i
> already have for "blame")

done!

the code is ugly, but it works :)

url is still https://gist.github.com/4539003
i added an example plot from my system:
https://gist.github.com/raw/4539003/6115831235f9a0fa8db8eaf88147d527437045a2/plot.svg

If somebody feels the need to start cleaning it up, feel free to do so.