On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 14:42 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 12:40 +0200, Martin Kolman wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 11:40 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 10:10 +0200, Vratislav Podzimek wrote: > > > > > Is this possible, any suggestions? > > > > /tmp/packaging.log is the file you want to track. You'd need to ignore > > > > the debugging information at the top, but the information about "so far > > > > installed" packages appears there during the installation process. > > > > > > Hi Vratislav, > > > > > > thanks for answering. I start the ssh daemon and log into the installing > > > while it is in progress. > > > > > > What you say would be great if it was the case for me. But it is not, > > > unfortunately. > > > > > > I did carefully search for the install progress information, grepped the > > > entire file-system, including /tmp and /tmp/sysimage - found noting. > > > > > > And yes, I did check /tmp/packaging.log, of course. I did think it would > > > contain the same as I see on the VGA display, but it doesn't. All it > > > contains is: > > > > > > 01:35:24,463 INFO packaging: 295 packages selected totalling 1.17 GB > > > 01:35:24,564 INFO packaging: Running anaconda-yum to install packages > > > 01:36:15,293 INFO packaging: running transaction > > > > > > And that's it. The next message is when all packages are installed. > > > Nothing in between. > > Oh, right. now I see it too. I was confused by the fact that it prints > > all the packages it has installed, but it looks like it does this only > > once the transaction finished (as can be seen from the log file > > timestamps). I'll see what can be done about this. > > Thanks for replies. I'd need some more specific directions if you want > me to file a bug or 'RFE', like a specific URL. > > Related question, did you ever try to log the entire tmux stream of > messages to a file? I do not even know if it is possible, but have a > feeling that it is. > > It would be extremely useful to have something like /tmp/display.log > which would contain all the text mode display output. > > Would that make sense? OK, here is the solusion I came up with, just in case someone googles for a similar problem and hits this this thread. 1. Establish SSH connection to the machine running anaconda installer 2. Run the following command: tmux pipe-pane -o -t anaconda 'exec cat >> /tmp/display.log' 3. Watch the /tmp/display.log file - it will "mirror" your text mode display. I find this solution to be quite good. Indeed, when I think about this, looking to the display output is something more reliable than looking to a log file. Simply because it is easy for developer to randomly change log file names and contents depending on the mood. But when it comes to the display, developers are usually more careful, and they assume there is a human in front of it, so they tend to print reasonable information there. Now, if you guys think this makes sense, you can just add this or a similar line to the '/usr/share/anaconda/tmux.conf' file, and that's it, you provided your users a copy of the display, which is very handy. What do you think? Thanks! -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
