| [a6cd72e] | 1 | Debugging the udev event processing | 
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|  | 4 | To visualize the driver core events and the udev event processes, use: | 
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|  | 5 | udevmonitor | 
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|  | 6 |  | 
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|  | 7 | it prints: | 
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|  | 8 | UEVENT[1132632714.285362] add@/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2 | 
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|  | 9 | UEVENT[1132632714.288166] add@/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0 | 
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|  | 10 | UEVENT[1132632714.309485] add@/class/input/input6 | 
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|  | 11 | UEVENT[1132632714.309511] add@/class/input/input6/mouse2 | 
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|  | 12 | UEVENT[1132632714.309524] add@/class/usb_device/usbdev2.12 | 
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|  | 13 | UDEV  [1132632714.348966] add@/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2 | 
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|  | 14 | UDEV  [1132632714.420947] add@/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0 | 
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|  | 15 | UDEV  [1132632714.427298] add@/class/input/input6 | 
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|  | 16 | UDEV  [1132632714.434223] add@/class/usb_device/usbdev2.12 | 
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|  | 17 | UDEV  [1132632714.439934] add@/class/input/input6/mouse2 | 
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|  | 19 | UEVENT lines show the events the kernel sends over netlink, the UDEV lines | 
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|  | 20 | show the finished udev event handlers. The timing is printed in microseconds. | 
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|  | 21 | The time between UEVENT and UDEV is the time udev took to process this event | 
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|  | 22 | or was queued to synchronize it with other events. | 
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|  | 24 | If called with: | 
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|  | 25 | udevmonitor --env | 
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|  | 27 | it prints the whole event environment: | 
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|  | 28 | UDEV  [1132633002.937243] add@/class/input/input7 | 
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|  | 29 | UDEV_LOG=3 | 
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|  | 30 | ACTION=add | 
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|  | 31 | DEVPATH=/class/input/input7 | 
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|  | 32 | SUBSYSTEM=input | 
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|  | 33 | SEQNUM=1043 | 
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|  | 34 | PHYSDEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0 | 
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|  | 35 | PHYSDEVBUS=usb | 
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|  | 36 | PHYSDEVDRIVER=usbhid | 
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|  | 37 | PRODUCT=3/46d/c03e/2000 | 
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|  | 38 | NAME="Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" | 
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|  | 41 | Udev also sends messages to syslog according to the configured debugging | 
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|  | 42 | level. Udev specific tools which are called, also respect the setting | 
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|  | 43 | of udev_log. But there might be some which need special actions to make | 
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|  | 44 | them verbose. | 
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|  | 46 | Set  udevs loglevel in the damon at runtime with: | 
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|  | 47 | udevcontrol log_priority=<level> | 
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|  | 49 | Enable logging permanently, set (it may make udev _very_ slow): | 
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|  | 50 | udev_log=info in /etc/udev/udev.conf. | 
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|  | 53 | For further processing of the logging output you should get a clean logfile at | 
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|  | 54 | next boot. Just move the old logfile away. (Syslog will still use the moved file | 
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|  | 55 | until it's restarted). | 
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|  | 57 | The script 'show_event_log' provided along with this file, can be used to | 
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|  | 58 | extract info out of /var/log/messages. Call it: | 
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|  | 59 | show_event_log <first> [<last> [<list of event types>] ] | 
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|  | 60 | <first> is the sequence number of the first event you are interested in. | 
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|  | 61 | <last>  is the number of the last event. You may write 'last' literally. It may | 
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|  | 62 | also be omitted if you want to see a single event. | 
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|  | 63 | <list>  is a list of event types you like to see. If you omit it, you get most | 
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|  | 64 | events, not all. Some are exclude by default. Use " " as list if you | 
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|  | 65 | want to see really all. Or edit the list of skipped events in the first | 
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|  | 66 | lines of the script | 
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|  | 68 | If you don't use /var/log/messages as the logfile you may set the environment | 
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|  | 69 | variable MESSAGES=<logfile>. | 
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