Re: Script to help users to report a BUG

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Thu Jun 23 2005 - 14:14:35 EST

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, [ISO-8859-2] Micha? Piotrowski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here is the latest verion:
> http://stud.wsi.edu.pl/~piotrowskim/files/ort/ort-a8.tar.bz2
>
> Changelog:
> - Randy's patch
> - Jesper's idea (Great thanks. I haven't test it yet ;))
> - Tainted kernel detection ;)
> - Some code "reorganization"
>

Here's a small patch with a few suggested changes. I don't know if you'll
like all the changes, but feel free to use the bits you like and drop the
rest :-)


--- ort.sh.original 2005-06-23 20:37:07.000000000 +0200
+++ ort.sh 2005-06-23 20:55:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -4,17 +4,17 @@
# Copyright (C) 2005 Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@xxxxxxxxx>
# Copyright (C) 2005 Paul TT <paultt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
# Copyright (C) 2005 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
-
+#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
-
+#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
-
+#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
@@ -23,16 +23,16 @@
ORT_O=$1
VER=v.a8

-M_EMAIL=a@xxx
-U_EMAIL=user@email
+M_EMAIL=joe.random.maintainer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+U_EMAIL=reporter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
LKML=linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-TOPIC=ORT
+TOPIC="Automagically generated bug report (ORT)"

EDITOR=vim
EM_CLI=mutt

help() {
- echo "Usage: [root@ng02 ort]$ ./ort.sh oops.txt"
+ echo "Usage: [root@mylinuxbox ~]$ ./ort.sh oops.txt"
echo "You need to be root to run the script"
exit 1
}
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
help
elif [[ ! -f "$ORT_O" ]]
then
- echo "ERROR: You must give proper file with Oops"
+ echo "ERROR: You must provide a proper file with the Oops text"
help
exit 1
fi
@@ -62,11 +62,11 @@
echo "OOPS Reporting Tool $VER" > $ORT_F
}

-chose_editor() {
+choose_editor() {
END_B=0
while [ $END_B = 0 ]
do
- echo -e "\nChose Your favourite text editor"
+ echo -e "\nChoose Your favourite text editor"
echo -e "1 - vim"
echo -e "2 - emacs"
echo -e "3 - mcedit"
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
do
echo -e "\nWrite editor name"
read EDITOR
- echo -e "You wrote < $EDITOR > is it corect?"
+ echo -e "You wrote < $EDITOR > is it correct?"
echo -e "[Y(es)/N(o)]"
read TXT
if [ $TXT = "Y" ] || [ $TXT = "y" ]
@@ -107,11 +107,11 @@
done
}

-chose_em_cli() {
+choose_em_cli() {
END_B=0
while [ $END_B = 0 ]
do
- echo -e "\nChose Your favourite (and configured) email client (i haven't test it ;))"
+ echo -e "\nChoose Your favourite (and configured) email client (I have not tested it ;))"
echo -e "1 - mutt (it may not work)"
echo -e "2 - sendmail"
echo -e "o - other"
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
do
echo -e "\nWrite email client name"
read EM_CLI
- echo -e "You wrote < $EM_CLI > is it corect?"
+ echo -e "You wrote < $EM_CLI > is it correct?"
echo -e "[Y(es)/N(o)]"
read TXT
if [ $TXT = "Y" ] || [ $TXT = "y" ]
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@
if [ "$TAINTED" > "$NULL" ]
then
echo "Tainted kernel!!!"
- echo "You can't send it to LKML"
+ echo "Please reproduce with an untainted kernel before you send the report to LKML."
+ echo "This script will not allow you to send a report for a tainted kernel."
LKML=banned@xxxxxxxxxx
fi
}
@@ -242,7 +243,7 @@
}

point_7_8() {
- echo -e "\n[7.8.] Dmesg log" >> $ORT_F
+ echo -e "\n[7.8.] dmesg log" >> $ORT_F
dmesg -s 100000 >> $ORT_F
}

@@ -254,7 +255,7 @@
#echo -e "\n[7.9.] /proc copy"
#while [ $END = 0 ]
#do
-# echo -e "\nDo You want to create /proc copy?"
+# echo -e "\nDo you want to create /proc copy?"
# echo -e "[Y(es)/N(o)]"
# read TXT
# if [ $TXT = "Y" ] || [ $TXT = "y" ]
@@ -278,7 +279,7 @@
END=0
while [ $END = 0 ]
do
- echo -e "\nDo You want to pass the path to kernel .config file?"
+ echo -e "\nDo you want to manually enter the path to the kernels .config file?"
echo -e "[A(utomagic)/Y(es)/S(kip)]"
read TXT
if [ $TXT = "Y" ] || [ $TXT = "y" ]
@@ -327,7 +328,7 @@
END=0
while [ $END = 0 ]
do
- echo -e "\nDo You want to see $ORT_F?"
+ echo -e "\nDo you want to see $ORT_F?"
echo -e "[Y(es)/N(o)]"
read TXT
if [ $TXT = "Y" ] || [ $TXT = "y" ]
@@ -345,7 +346,7 @@
END=0
while [ $END = 0 ]
do
- echo -e "\nDo You want to edit $ORT_F in $EDITOR?"
+ echo -e "\nDo you want to edit $ORT_F in $EDITOR?"
echo -e "[Y(es)/N(o)]"
read TXT
if [ $TXT = "Y" ] || [ $TXT = "y" ]
@@ -363,7 +364,7 @@
END_A=0
while [ $END_A = 0 ]
do
- echo -e "\nDo you want to list MAINTERNERS list?"
+ echo -e "\nDo you want to list the MAINTERNERS file to locate the proper maintainer?"
echo -e "[Y(es)/N(o)]"
read TXT
if [ $TXT = "Y" ] || [ $TXT = "y" ]
@@ -384,7 +385,7 @@
END_A=0
while [ $END_A = 0 ]
do
- echo -e "\nWrite mainterner e-mail"
+ echo -e "\nWrite maintainer e-mail"
read M_EMAIL
echo -e "You wrote < $M_EMAIL > is it corect?"
echo -e "[Y(es)/N(o)]"
@@ -403,7 +404,8 @@
END_A=0
while [ $END_A = 0 ]
do
- echo -e "\nWrite your e-mail"
+ echo -e "\nWrite your e-mail (to be used as from address)"
+ echo -e "Please make sure it's correct so people can get back to you."
read U_EMAIL
echo -e "You wrote < $U_EMAIL > is it corect?"
echo -e "[Y(es)/N(o)]"
@@ -422,7 +424,7 @@
END=0
while [ $END = 0 ]
do
- echo -e "\nDo You want to send $ORT_F?"
+ echo -e "\nDo you want to send $ORT_F?"
echo -e "[Y(es)/N(o)]"
read TXT
if [ $TXT = "Y" ] || [ $TXT = "y" ]
@@ -433,8 +435,8 @@
while [ $END_1 = 0 ]
do
echo -e "1 to LKML"
- echo -e "2 to mainterner"
- echo -e "3 to mainterner and LKML"
+ echo -e "2 to maintainer"
+ echo -e "3 to maintainer and LKML"
read TXT_1
if [ $TXT_1 = "1" ]
then
@@ -443,7 +445,7 @@
mutt -s "[OOPS] $TOPIC" -i $ORT_F -c $LKML
elif [ $EM_CLI = "sendmail" ]
then
- echo -e "Subject: Automagically generated bug report\n`cat topic.txt`\n" | sendmail -f <$U_EMAIL> $LKML
+ echo -e "Subject: ${TOPIC}\n`cat ${ORT_F}`\n" | sendmail -f $U_EMAIL $LKML
fi
END_1=1
elif [ $TXT_1 = "2" ]
@@ -472,17 +474,14 @@
rm_ortmp
logo

-chose_editor
-chose_em_cli
+choose_editor
+choose_em_cli

point_1
point_2
point_3
-
point_4
-
point_5
-
point_6

point_7_1
@@ -496,11 +495,10 @@
#point_7_9

point_8
-
point_9

less_r
edit_r
send_r

-rm_ortmp
\ No newline at end of file
+rm_ortmp




Kind regards,

Jesper Juhl


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