Please enable CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP

[Steve Langasek]

CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP is currently disabled in the Ubuntu kernel configs. This would be useful to have enabled for debugging early-boot problems with a USB debugging cable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: linux-image-3.5.0-4-generic 3.5.0-4.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-4.4-generic 3.5.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-4-generic x86_64
AcpiTables: Error: command ['gksu', '-D', 'Apport', '--', 'env', '-u', 'LANGUAGE', 'LC_MESSAGES=C', '/usr/share/apport/dump_acpi_tables.py'] failed with exit code -11:
ApportVersion: 2.3-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: vorlon 30476 F.... pulseaudio
CheckboxSubmission: 017452a27eca3c8b498abbfa5ef91db9
CheckboxSystem: ecaaad6fa1e0799a0aa1126bf620f39e
Date: Thu Jul 19 12:03:27 2012
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=f6ab3c43-61b4-4af7-bf03-fa3b147a1de0
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 3249CTO
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.5.0-4-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro quiet splash
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.5.0-4-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.5.0-4-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.84
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-11 (38 days ago)
WifiSyslog:

dmi.bios.date: 08/23/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6QET52WW (1.22 )
dmi.board.name: 3249CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6QET52WW(1.22):bd08/23/2010:svnLENOVO:pn3249CTO:pvrThinkPadX201:rvnLENOVO:rn3249CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 3249CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X201
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Steve - After looking at the code and reading the Kconfig blurb I don't think this is a very good idea.

"This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here, unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device."

I'd rather not break klogd/syslogd. We could certainly build a test kernel to help you debug the UEFI boot sequence.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Tim,

> I'd rather not break klogd/syslogd. We could certainly
> build a test kernel to help you debug the UEFI boot sequence.

The ugliness only applies if you pass an additional earlyprintk=dbgp commandline option to the kernel. Otherwise, there's just one additional kernel message - via the usual interface - and no other impact. It would be very useful to have this included in the stock kernel rather than in a separate debugging kernel, so that our daily images are debuggable out of the box. Please reconsider enabling this.

(FWIW, Matthew Garrett says that they've had this enabled for years in Red Hat too)

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Ah, I missed the line in Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt that mentioned the command line parameters.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.5.0-6.6

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linux (3.5.0-6.6) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

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