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Last change on this file since 495ec08 was a6cd72e, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r861@server (orig r859): jim | 2005-12-06 22:41:11 -0800

r994@server: jim | 2005-12-06 22:39:42 -0800
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1Debugging the udev event processing
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3
4To visualize the driver core events and the udev event processes, use:
5 udevmonitor
6
7it prints:
8 UEVENT[1132632714.285362] add@/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2
9 UEVENT[1132632714.288166] add@/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0
10 UEVENT[1132632714.309485] add@/class/input/input6
11 UEVENT[1132632714.309511] add@/class/input/input6/mouse2
12 UEVENT[1132632714.309524] add@/class/usb_device/usbdev2.12
13 UDEV [1132632714.348966] add@/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2
14 UDEV [1132632714.420947] add@/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0
15 UDEV [1132632714.427298] add@/class/input/input6
16 UDEV [1132632714.434223] add@/class/usb_device/usbdev2.12
17 UDEV [1132632714.439934] add@/class/input/input6/mouse2
18
19UEVENT lines show the events the kernel sends over netlink, the UDEV lines
20show the finished udev event handlers. The timing is printed in microseconds.
21The time between UEVENT and UDEV is the time udev took to process this event
22or was queued to synchronize it with other events.
23
24If called with:
25 udevmonitor --env
26
27it prints the whole event environment:
28 UDEV [1132633002.937243] add@/class/input/input7
29 UDEV_LOG=3
30 ACTION=add
31 DEVPATH=/class/input/input7
32 SUBSYSTEM=input
33 SEQNUM=1043
34 PHYSDEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0
35 PHYSDEVBUS=usb
36 PHYSDEVDRIVER=usbhid
37 PRODUCT=3/46d/c03e/2000
38 NAME="Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
39
40
41Udev also sends messages to syslog according to the configured debugging
42level. Udev specific tools which are called, also respect the setting
43of udev_log. But there might be some which need special actions to make
44them verbose.
45
46Set udevs loglevel in the damon at runtime with:
47 udevcontrol log_priority=<level>
48
49Enable logging permanently, set (it may make udev _very_ slow):
50 udev_log=info in /etc/udev/udev.conf.
51
52
53For further processing of the logging output you should get a clean logfile at
54next boot. Just move the old logfile away. (Syslog will still use the moved file
55until it's restarted).
56
57The script 'show_event_log' provided along with this file, can be used to
58extract info out of /var/log/messages. Call it:
59 show_event_log <first> [<last> [<list of event types>] ]
60<first> is the sequence number of the first event you are interested in.
61<last> is the number of the last event. You may write 'last' literally. It may
62 also be omitted if you want to see a single event.
63<list> is a list of event types you like to see. If you omit it, you get most
64 events, not all. Some are exclude by default. Use " " as list if you
65 want to see really all. Or edit the list of skipped events in the first
66 lines of the script
67
68If you don't use /var/log/messages as the logfile you may set the environment
69variable MESSAGES=<logfile>.
70
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