[systemd-devel] [PATCH v2] log: be more verbose if dbus job fails

Djalal Harouni tixxdz at opendz.org
Thu Apr 9 07:31:18 PDT 2015


On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 02:10:14PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 03:20:02PM +0200, Michal Sekletar wrote:
> > Users might have hard time figuring out why exactly their systemctl request
> > failed. If dbus job fails try to figure out more details about failure by
> > examining Result property of the service.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016680
> > ---
> >  src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-util.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++---
> >  src/shared/log.c                 | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  src/shared/log.h                 |  2 ++
> >  3 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-util.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-util.c
> > index 6498769..bb4c993 100644
> > --- a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-util.c
> > +++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-util.c
> > @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
> >  #include "path-util.h"
> >  #include "missing.h"
> >  #include "set.h"
> > +#include "unit-name.h"
> >  
> >  #include "sd-bus.h"
> >  #include "bus-error.h"
> > @@ -1716,6 +1717,35 @@ static int bus_process_wait(sd_bus *bus) {
> >          }
> >  }
> >  
> > +static int bus_job_get_service_result(BusWaitForJobs *d, char **result) {
> > +        int r = 0;
> > +        _cleanup_free_ char *dbus_path = NULL, *p = NULL;
> > +
> > +        assert(d);
> > +        assert(d->result);
> > +        assert(d->name);
> > +        assert(result);
> > +
> > +        dbus_path = unit_dbus_path_from_name(d->name);
> > +        if (!dbus_path)
> > +                return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +        r = sd_bus_get_property_string(d->bus,
> > +                                       "org.freedesktop.systemd1",
> > +                                       dbus_path,
> > +                                       "org.freedesktop.systemd1.Service",
> > +                                       "Result",
> > +                                       NULL,
> > +                                       &p);
> > +        if (r < 0)
> > +                return r;
> > +
> > +        *result = p;
> > +        p = NULL;
> > +
> > +        return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> >  static int check_wait_response(BusWaitForJobs *d, bool quiet) {
> >          int r = 0;
> >  
> > @@ -1736,13 +1766,14 @@ static int check_wait_response(BusWaitForJobs *d, bool quiet) {
> >                          log_error("Operation on or unit type of %s not supported on this system.", strna(d->name));
> >                  else if (!streq(d->result, "done") && !streq(d->result, "skipped")) {
> >                          if (d->name) {
> > -                                bool quotes;
> > +                                int q;
> > +                                _cleanup_free_ char *result = NULL;
> >  
> > -                                quotes = chars_intersect(d->name, SHELL_NEED_QUOTES);
> > +                                q = bus_job_get_service_result(d, &result);
> > +                                if (q < 0)
> > +                                        log_debug_errno(q, "Failed to get Result property of service %s: %m", d->name);
> >  
> > -                                log_error("Job for %s failed. See \"systemctl status %s%s%s\" and \"journalctl -xe\" for details.",
> > -                                          d->name,
> > -                                          quotes ? "'" : "", d->name, quotes ? "'" : "");
> > +                                log_job_error_with_service_result(d->name, result);
> >                          } else
> >                                  log_error("Job failed. See \"journalctl -xe\" for details.");
> >                  }
> > diff --git a/src/shared/log.c b/src/shared/log.c
> > index 646a1d6..3219756 100644
> > --- a/src/shared/log.c
> > +++ b/src/shared/log.c
> > @@ -1061,3 +1061,79 @@ void log_received_signal(int level, const struct signalfd_siginfo *si) {
> >  void log_set_upgrade_syslog_to_journal(bool b) {
> >          upgrade_syslog_to_journal = b;
> >  }
> > +
> > +typedef enum ServiceResult {
> > +        SERVICE_SUCCESS,
> > +        SERVICE_FAILURE_RESOURCES,
> > +        SERVICE_FAILURE_TIMEOUT,
> > +        SERVICE_FAILURE_EXIT_CODE,
> > +        SERVICE_FAILURE_SIGNAL,
> > +        SERVICE_FAILURE_CORE_DUMP,
> > +        SERVICE_FAILURE_WATCHDOG,
> > +        SERVICE_FAILURE_START_LIMIT,
> > +        _SERVICE_RESULT_MAX,
> > +        _SERVICE_RESULT_INVALID = -1
> > +} ServiceResult;
> 
> dbus property returns the result as a string. So we need to map this string
> to an explanation. Going through the intermediate ServiceResult int does
> not really gain anything... I think things would be simpler if you added a
> table mapping result to explanation:
> 
> static const struct {
>   const char *result, *explanation;
> } explanations[] = {
>   {"timeout", "start timeout was exceeded"},
>   ...
>   {}
> };
> 
> and then simply looped over this table. This way it won't be necessary to
> have three different lists.
> 
> This could live simply in systemctl.c. Those are only parts of
> sentences, nothing generally useful.
Yes, these const values and perhaps the followings should not be in
log.c, perhaps systemctl.c or in a file where services state make sense
and where we can keep things synced...


> > +static const char* const service_result_table[_SERVICE_RESULT_MAX] = {
> > +        [SERVICE_SUCCESS] = "success",
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_RESOURCES] = "resources",
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_TIMEOUT] = "timeout",
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_EXIT_CODE] = "exit-code",
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_SIGNAL] = "signal",
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_CORE_DUMP] = "core-dump",
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_WATCHDOG] = "watchdog",
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_START_LIMIT] = "start-limit"
> > +};
> > +
> > +DEFINE_PRIVATE_STRING_TABLE_LOOKUP_FROM_STRING(service_result, ServiceResult);
> > +
> > +static const char* const service_result_error_message_table[_SERVICE_RESULT_MAX] = {
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_RESOURCES] = "configured resource limit was exceeded",
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_TIMEOUT] = ,
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_EXIT_CODE] = "ExecStart process exited with error code",
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_SIGNAL] = "fatal signal was delivered to ExecStart process",
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_CORE_DUMP] = "fatal signal was delivered to ExecStart process. Core dumped",
> 
> "fatal signal was delivered to ExecStart process and it dumped core"?
> 
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_WATCHDOG] = "service failed to sent watchdog ping",
> "...failed to send..."
> 
> > +        [SERVICE_FAILURE_START_LIMIT] = "start of the service was attempted too often too quickly",
> > +};

-- 
Djalal Harouni
http://opendz.org


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