[kernel] dont collect some tracing instance files

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Hello Eric, or anyone else affected,

Accepted sosreport into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sosreport/3.6-1ubuntu0.18.10.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Eric, or anyone else affected,

Accepted sosreport into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sosreport/3.6-1ubuntu0.18.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Eric, or anyone else affected,

Accepted sosreport into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sosreport/3.6-1ubuntu0.16.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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[VERIFICATION BIONIC]

sosreport no longer hangs on kernel files collection w/ 3.6-1ubuntu0.18.04.2

$ sosreport -o kernel

sosreport (version 3.6)

This command will collect system configuration and diagnostic
information from this Ubuntu system. An archive containing the collected
information will be generated in /tmp/sos.vsiyc18_.

For more information on Ubuntu visit:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/

The generated archive may contain data considered sensitive and its
content should be reviewed by the originating organization before being
passed to any third party.

No changes will be made to system configuration.

Press ENTER to continue, or CTRL-C to quit.

Please enter the case id that you are generating this report for []:

 Setting up archive ...
 Setting up plugins ...
 Running plugins. Please wait ...

  Starting 1/1 kernel [Running: kernel]

  Finished running plugins
Creating compressed archive...

Your sosreport has been generated and saved in:
  /tmp/sosreport-sosb-20181122022627.tar.xz

The checksum is: 15e609f021c4bb411401a0e1b4e3a113

Please send this file to your support representative.

[VERIFICATION COSMIC]

sosreport no longer hangs on kernel files collection w/ 3.6-1ubuntu0.18.10.2

# sosreport -o kernel

sosreport (version 3.6)

This command will collect system configuration and diagnostic
information from this Ubuntu system. An archive containing the collected
information will be generated in /tmp/sos.v2h27yvw.

For more information on Ubuntu visit:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/

The generated archive may contain data considered sensitive and its
content should be reviewed by the originating organization before being
passed to any third party.

No changes will be made to system configuration.

Press ENTER to continue, or CTRL-C to quit.

Please enter the case id that you are generating this report for []:

 Setting up archive ...
 Setting up plugins ...
 Running plugins. Please wait ...

  Starting 1/1 kernel [Running: kernel]
  Finished running plugins
Creating compressed archive...

Your sosreport has been generated and saved in:
  /tmp/sosreport-sosc-20181122023031.tar.xz

The checksum is: 37809b4030f6c7ec1b195226e99ea98b

Please send this file to your support representative.

[VERIFICATION XENIAL]

sosreport no longer hangs on kernel files collection w/ 3.6-1ubuntu0.16.04.2

# sosreport -o kernel

sosreport (version 3.6)

This command will collect system configuration and diagnostic
information from this Ubuntu system. An archive containing the collected
information will be generated in /tmp/sos.mgm0knl9.

For more information on Ubuntu visit:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/

The generated archive may contain data considered sensitive and its
content should be reviewed by the originating organization before being
passed to any third party.

No changes will be made to system configuration.

Press ENTER to continue, or CTRL-C to quit.

Please enter the case id that you are generating this report for []:

 Setting up archive ...
 Setting up plugins ...
 Running plugins. Please wait ...

  Starting 1/1 kernel [Running: kernel]

  Finished running plugins
Creating compressed archive...

Your sosreport has been generated and saved in:
  /tmp/sosreport-sosx-20181122023408.tar.xz

The checksum is: 644b119ad6d0705cc0fe19f074cf523

The verification of the Stable Release Update for sosreport has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package sosreport - 3.6-1ubuntu0.18.04.2

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sosreport (3.6-1ubuntu0.18.04.2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * d/p/dont-collect-some-tracing-instance-files.patch: (LP: #1803735)
    - Ignoring some kernel files as the copy of them make sosreport
      hangs in situation where kernel tracing events is in used.

sosreport (3.6-1ubuntu0.18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * New 3.6 upstream release. (LP: #1775195)
    major enhancements to core features and existing plugins:

    - better package manager version information
    - policy support for detecting package managed files
    - fixed exit status propagation
    - deprecated optparse replaced with argparse
    - simplified and improved SoSOptions interface
    - better error handling during interactive prompting
    - allow journal collection by identifier
    - allow collection of journal message catalogs
    - support for collecting binary file data
    - more fine-grained system plugins (date etc.)
    - policy defined report file name patterns
    - more human-readable report file names by default
    - increased default log size (25MiB vs. 10MiB)
    - support for forbidden path lists and forbid logging
    - support for enabling plugins by kernel module name
    - support for enabling plugins by executable name
    - support for collecting eBPF (bpftool) data
    - support for device information via add_udev_info()
    - support for detecting and reporting unpackaged binaries
    - optional collection of the RPMDB
    - improved archive compression level and multithreading
    - default log size increased from 10MiB to 25MiB
    - improved debug logging and ENOSPC handling
    - major updates to the IPA plugin
    - major updates to the Docker plugin
    - string decoding fixes
    - DNF and Yum module support
    - OpenShift 3.10 support
    - Python3 fixes

  Further release information and tarballs are available at:
    https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/3.6

  * Debian specific modifications :
    - Omit Python2 only unittests
    - Avoid distutils in lstopo plugin

  * Former debian modifications now fixed upstream:
    - d/p/0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch
    - d/p/0003-fix-name-containers-is-not-defined.patch
    - Fix-string-decoding-for-debug-log-output.patch

  * Cherry-pick upstream patch:
    - d/p/fix-string-substitution-method.patch:
      Fix plugin string substitution methods to fail.

 -- Eric Desrochers <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:11:27 -0500

This bug was fixed in the package sosreport - 3.6-1ubuntu0.16.04.2

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sosreport (3.6-1ubuntu0.16.04.2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * d/p/dont-collect-some-tracing-instance-files.patch: (LP: #1803735)
    - Ignoring some kernel files as the copy of them make sosreport
      hangs in situation where kernel tracing events is in used.

sosreport (3.6-1ubuntu0.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New 3.6 upstream release. (LP: #1775195)
    major enhancements to core features and existing plugins:

    - better package manager version information
    - policy support for detecting package managed files
    - fixed exit status propagation
    - deprecated optparse replaced with argparse
    - simplified and improved SoSOptions interface
    - better error handling during interactive prompting
    - allow journal collection by identifier
    - allow collection of journal message catalogs
    - support for collecting binary file data
    - more fine-grained system plugins (date etc.)
    - policy defined report file name patterns
    - more human-readable report file names by default
    - increased default log size (25MiB vs. 10MiB)
    - support for forbidden path lists and forbid logging
    - support for enabling plugins by kernel module name
    - support for enabling plugins by executable name
    - support for collecting eBPF (bpftool) data
    - support for device information via add_udev_info()
    - support for detecting and reporting unpackaged binaries
    - optional collection of the RPMDB
    - improved archive compression level and multithreading
    - default log size increased from 10MiB to 25MiB
    - improved debug logging and ENOSPC handling
    - major updates to the IPA plugin
    - major updates to the Docker plugin
    - string decoding fixes
    - DNF and Yum module support
    - OpenShift 3.10 support
    - Python3 fixes

  Further release information and tarballs are available at:
    https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/3.6

  * Debian specific modifications :
    - Omit Python2 only unittests
    - Avoid distutils in lstopo plugin

  * Former debian modifications now fixed upstream:
    - d/p/0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch
    - d/p/0003-fix-name-containers-is-not-defined.patch
    - Fix-string-decoding-for-debug-log-output.patch

  * Cherry-pick upstream patch:
    - d/p/fix-string-substitution-method.patch:
      Fix plugin string substitution methods to fail.

 -- Eric Desrochers <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:13:16 -0500

This bug was fixed in the package sosreport - 3.6-1ubuntu0.18.10.2

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sosreport (3.6-1ubuntu0.18.10.2) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * d/p/dont-collect-some-tracing-instance-files.patch: (LP: #1803735)
    - Ignoring some kernel files as the copy of them make sosreport
      hangs in situation where kernel tracing events is in used.

sosreport (3.6-1ubuntu0.18.10.1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * New 3.6 upstream release. (LP: #1775195)
    major enhancements to core features and existing plugins:

    - better package manager version information
    - policy support for detecting package managed files
    - fixed exit status propagation
    - deprecated optparse replaced with argparse
    - simplified and improved SoSOptions interface
    - better error handling during interactive prompting
    - allow journal collection by identifier
    - allow collection of journal message catalogs
    - support for collecting binary file data
    - more fine-grained system plugins (date etc.)
    - policy defined report file name patterns
    - more human-readable report file names by default
    - increased default log size (25MiB vs. 10MiB)
    - support for forbidden path lists and forbid logging
    - support for enabling plugins by kernel module name
    - support for enabling plugins by executable name
    - support for collecting eBPF (bpftool) data
    - support for device information via add_udev_info()
    - support for detecting and reporting unpackaged binaries
    - optional collection of the RPMDB
    - improved archive compression level and multithreading
    - default log size increased from 10MiB to 25MiB
    - improved debug logging and ENOSPC handling
    - major updates to the IPA plugin
    - major updates to the Docker plugin
    - string decoding fixes
    - DNF and Yum module support
    - OpenShift 3.10 support
    - Python3 fixes

  Further release information and tarballs are available at:
    https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/3.6

  * Debian specific modifications :
    - Omit Python2 only unittests
    - Avoid distutils in lstopo plugin

  * Former debian modifications now fixed upstream:
    - d/p/0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch
    - d/p/0003-fix-name-containers-is-not-defined.patch
    - Fix-string-decoding-for-debug-log-output.patch

  * Cherry-pick upstream patch:
    - d/p/fix-string-substitution-method.patch:
      Fix plugin string substitution methods to fail.

 -- Eric Desrochers <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:52:59 -0500