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[Daniel Chen <seven.steps@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 1:16 PM, David Henningsson
<launchpad.web@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * As a first simple step, we could consider dumping "pactl list" and/or
> "pactl stat" and add as apport data.

Right, so those should be added to the hook in the pulseaudio package
(because they already are in apport-symptom's audio.py).

> * A problem with the above would be that startup data is not collected,
> i e bugs occurring at startup of PA won't be collected.

Appending "log-level = debug" to ~/.pulse/client.conf would help here
as well as a request for the user to log out and back in to the
desktop session.

> * Checkbox could do what you suggest automatically during the audio tests.

For the non-session-race-related instances, yes.

> * I'm not a Linux logging guru just yet, and I'm not sure it is a good
> idea, but is it possible without too much time and trouble to have
> pulseaudio in a separate log? Just like I have five printer logs
> (lpr.log, lpr.log.1, and three zipped ones). That way one could have
> debug logging on all the time, without spamming the syslog.

We certainly could look into doing this for 10.10. Pulling from
/var/log/user.log seems useful for now.