rasdaemon doesn't actually log anything

[Jeffrey Baker]

Release: 23.10

% apt policy rasdaemon
rasdaemon:
  Installed: 0.6.8-1.1
  Candidate: 0.6.8-1.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.8-1.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

% uname -r
6.5.0-26-generic

Machine check errors are noted in dmesg, but rasdaemon logs nothing.

[Mon Mar 18 21:56:36 2024] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[Mon Mar 18 21:56:37 2024] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[Mon Mar 18 22:07:29 2024] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[Mon Mar 18 22:07:30 2024] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[Mon Mar 18 22:15:20 2024] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
% sudo journalctl -f -u rasdaemon

Mar 18 21:52:41 fractal rasdaemon[988]: Family 6 Model b7 CPU: only decoding architectural errors
Mar 18 21:52:41 fractal rasdaemon[988]: mce:mce_record event enabled
Mar 18 21:52:41 fractal systemd[1]: Started rasdaemon.service - RAS daemon to log the RAS events.
Mar 18 21:52:41 fractal rasdaemon[988]: Enabled event mce:mce_record
Mar 18 21:52:41 fractal rasdaemon[988]: ras:extlog_mem_event event enabled
Mar 18 21:52:41 fractal rasdaemon[988]: Enabled event ras:extlog_mem_event
Mar 18 21:52:41 fractal rasdaemon[988]: rasdaemon: Recording mc_event events
Mar 18 21:52:41 fractal rasdaemon[988]: rasdaemon: Recording aer_event events
Mar 18 21:52:41 fractal rasdaemon[988]: rasdaemon: Recording extlog_event events
Mar 18 21:52:41 fractal rasdaemon[988]: rasdaemon: Recording mce_record events
% sudo ras-mc-ctl --errors
No Memory errors.

No PCIe AER errors.

No Extlog errors.

No MCE errors.

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

It's hard to tell if this is an issue of the upstream source, or the packaging issue itself.

If possible, can you elaborate how to reproduce this issue?

Besides, there is new version in Ubuntu archive. Mind giving the newer version a try? https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rasdaemon