Howdy folks,
All of us already have ever faced some meltdown issues to dissolve regarding the IT matters. For some, the solution is taking a walk and/or prepares a chimarrão (a typical beverage) to make the ideas clear. And if the problem still persists, the deal is change an idea with a friend to try to clear the problem.
Yes! All of us already got this situation. Ok, Perhaps not everyone have had prepared a chimarrão, but what matter is that in most of the times we need to share a log, configuration file, code’s snippet, etc. Pasting those messages under MSN/gtalk/ICQ/Jabber/IRC is too inconvenient and not mentioning that the format may change making it difficult to read.
A quick way to share logs/codes not needing to perform all the procedure of open the browser, copy and past the message using sites as PasteBin.com per example, is to use the application fpaste shipped in Fedora.
The simple tool fpaste consists in a script wrote in Python (++) which uploads the text into fpaste.org and returns a fresh URL. An interesting point in my opinion is that fpaste allows customization, such as to define which language for content to get the syntax highlighted. For while the maximum stay for the shared data is up to 1 day.
notebook $> rpm -q fpaste fpaste-0.3.7-1.fc16.noarch
Fpaste usage is quite simple.
notebook $> fpaste --help Usage: fpaste [OPTION]... [FILE]... send text file(s), stdin, or clipboard to the http://fpaste.org/ pastebin and return the URL. Examples: fpaste file1.txt file2.txt dmesg | fpaste (prog1; prog2; prog3) | fpaste fpaste --sysinfo -d "my laptop" --confirm fpaste -n codemonkey -d "problem with foo" -l python foo.py
To a better experiencing, try to create a command alias setting some options as showed below:
notebook $> alias fpaste alias fpaste='fpaste -n mmello -l python -x 3600'
An important funcionality we need to highlight is that we can share some information about our own box. This functionality is very important in moments when we need help with that sound/wifi driver that is not working.
notebook $> fpaste --sysinfo --confirm
Gathering system info...........................
=== fpaste 0.3.7 System Information (fpaste --sysinfo) ===
* OS Release (lsb_release -ds):
"Fedora release 16 (Verne)"
* Kernel (uname -r ; cat /proc/cmdline):
3.1.0-0.rc8.git0.1.fc16.x86_64
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.1.0-0.rc8.git0.1.fc16.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vg_notebook-lv_root ro rhgb quiet rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg_notebook/lv_swap SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg_notebook/lv_root KEYTABLE=us-acentos LANG=en_US.UTF-8
* Smolt Profile URL:
N/A
* Desktop(s) Running (ps -eo comm= | egrep '(gnome-session|kdeinit|xfce.?-session|fluxbox|blackbox|hackedbox|ratpoison|enlightenment|icewm-session|od-session|wmaker|wmx|openbox-lxde|openbox-gnome-session|openbox-kde-session|mwm|e16|fvwm|xmonad|sugar-session)' ):
xfce4-session
* Desktop(s) Installed (ls -m /usr/share/xsessions/ | sed 's/\.desktop//g' ):
gnome, xfce
* SELinux Status (sestatus):
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy version: 26
Policy from config file: targeted
* SELinux Error Count (failed: "selinuxenabled && (grep avc: /var/log/messages; ausearch -m avc -ts today)2>/dev/null|egrep -o "comm=\"[^ ]+"|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn"):
N/A
* CPU Model (grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F: '{print $2}' | uniq -c | sed -re 's/^ +//' ):
2 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz
* 64-bit Support (grep -q ' lm ' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
Yes
* Hardware Virtualization Support (egrep -q '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
Yes
* Load average (uptime):
00:00:19 up 2:15, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.05
* Memory usage (free -m):
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3915 3704 210 0 32 3027
-/+ buffers/cache: 644 3270
Swap: 5951 24 5927
* Top 5 CPU hogs (ps axuScnh | awk '$2!=4785' | sort -rnk3 | head -5):
0 1 18.3 0.6 57952 24696 ? Ss Oct08 24:50 systemd
1000 3761 2.0 2.9 2990424 119472 ? Sl Oct08 0:55 rhythmbox
0 1296 1.8 0.5 133656 20220 tty1 Ss+ Oct08 2:26 Xorg
1000 1762 1.4 0.1 253864 7596 ? Sl Oct08 1:56 xfce4-session
1000 4079 1.1 0.1 119568 5148 pts/0 Ss Oct08 0:15 bash
* Top 5 Memory hogs (ps axuScnh | sort -rnk4 | head -5):
1000 3761 2.0 2.9 2990424 119472 ? Sl Oct08 0:55 rhythmbox
1000 1802 0.0 1.1 1585400 44800 ? Ssl Oct08 0:04 dropbox
1000 2251 0.0 0.7 981264 28576 ? Sl Oct08 0:00 e-calendar-fact
0 1 18.3 0.6 57952 24696 ? Ss Oct08 24:50 systemd
1000 1821 0.0 0.5 557828 23188 ? Sl Oct08 0:02 tracker-store
* Disk space usage (df -hT):
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs rootfs 34G 6.7G 27G 21% /
devtmpfs devtmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 2.0G 2.2M 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 2.0G 47M 1.9G 3% /run
/dev/mapper/vg_notebook-lv_root ext4 34G 6.7G 27G 21% /
tmpfs tmpfs 2.0G 47M 1.9G 3% /run
tmpfs tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /media
/dev/sda1 ext4 485M 79M 381M 18% /boot
/dev/mapper/luks-c24525fe-40a9-4839-81fd-da2b11355741 ext4 107G 32G 71G 31% /home
* Block devices (failed: "blkid" AND "/sbin/blkid"):
N/A
* PCI devices (lspci):
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset MEI Controller (rev 07)
00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset AMT SOL Redirection (rev 07)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
* USB devices (lsusb):
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 22b8:41d9 Motorola PCS Droid/Milestone
* DRM Information (failed: "grep drm /var/log/dmesg"):
N/A
* Xorg modules (grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log | cut -d \" -f 2 | xargs):
extmod dbe glx record dri dri2 intel vesa fbdev fbdevhw fb dri2 evdev synaptics
* GL Support (failed: "glxinfo | egrep "OpenGL version|OpenGL renderer""):
N/A
* Xorg errors (failed: "grep '^\[.*(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log"):
N/A
* Kernel buffer tail (dmesg | tail):
[ 8072.808666] NEGADO: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=172.16.69.3 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=149 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=17500 DPT=17500 LEN=129
[ 8072.813066] NEGADO: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=172.16.69.3 DST=172.16.69.255 LEN=149 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=17500 DPT=17500 LEN=129
[ 8082.054768] NEGADO: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:84:2b:2b:7c:5c:31:08:00 SRC=172.16.69.2 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=149 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=17500 DPT=17500 LEN=129
[ 8082.055204] NEGADO: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:84:2b:2b:7c:5c:31:08:00 SRC=172.16.69.2 DST=172.16.69.255 LEN=149 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=17500 DPT=17500 LEN=129
[ 8090.981265] NEGADO: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:f8:1e:df:f2:08:d2:08:00 SRC=172.16.69.20 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=147 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=35624 PROTO=UDP SPT=17500 DPT=17500 LEN=127
[ 8090.981970] NEGADO: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:f8:1e:df:f2:08:d2:08:00 SRC=172.16.69.20 DST=172.16.69.255 LEN=147 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=53261 PROTO=UDP SPT=17500 DPT=17500 LEN=127
[ 8096.243782] NEGADO: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:68:7f:74:2b:eb:c0:08:00 SRC=172.16.69.254 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=0 DF PROTO=2
[ 8102.846392] NEGADO: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=172.16.69.3 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=149 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=17500 DPT=17500 LEN=129
[ 8102.847085] NEGADO: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=172.16.69.3 DST=172.16.69.255 LEN=149 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=17500 DPT=17500 LEN=129
* Last few reboots (last -x -n10 reboot runlevel):
runlevel (to lvl 5) 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0 Sat Oct 8 21:45 - 00:00 (02:14)
reboot system boot 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0 Sat Oct 8 21:45 - 00:00 (02:15)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0 Fri Oct 7 14:40 - 22:35 (07:54)
reboot system boot 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0 Fri Oct 7 14:39 - 22:35 (07:55)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0 Thu Oct 6 22:35 - 00:56 (02:21)
reboot system boot 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0 Thu Oct 6 22:34 - 00:56 (02:21)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0 Thu Oct 6 13:28 - 22:35 (09:07)
reboot system boot 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0 Thu Oct 6 13:27 - 00:56 (11:28)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0 Thu Oct 6 12:28 - 12:49 (00:21)
reboot system boot 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0 Thu Oct 6 12:28 - 12:49 (00:21)
wtmp begins Sat Sep 10 11:04:31 2011
* YUM Repositories (yum -C repolist):
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-
: packagekit
repo id repo name status
brew Brew Buildsystem for Fedora 16 - x86_64 4
fedora Fedora 16 - x86_64 24,906
fedora-debuginfo Fedora 16 - x86_64 - Debug 5,639
google-chrome google-chrome 3
google-earth google-earth 1
google-talkplugin google-talkplugin 1
rpmfusion-free-rawhide RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide - Free 394
rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide - Nonfree 164
updates-debuginfo Fedora 16 - x86_64 - Updates - Debug 0
updates-testing Fedora 16 - x86_64 - Test Updates 6,541
updates-testing-debuginfo Fedora 16 - x86_64 - Test Updates Debug 1,196
repolist: 38,849
* YUM Extras (yum -C list extras):
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-
: packagekit
Extra Packages
clutter-gesture.x86_64 0.0.2-2.fc13 @koji-override-0/$releasever
clutter-imcontext.x86_64 0.1.6-4.fc15 @koji-override-0/$releasever
kernel.x86_64 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16 @updates-testing
kernel.x86_64 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0.0.fc16 @updates-testing
kernel-devel.x86_64 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16 @updates-testing
kernel-devel.x86_64 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0.0.fc16 @updates-testing
lastfm.x86_64 1.4.2.58240-6.fc11 @rpmfusion-free-rawhide
nautilus-dropbox.x86_64 0.6.9-1.fc10 @/nautilus-dropbox-0.6.9-1.fedora.x86_64
opera.x86_64 2:11.51-1087 installed
pygobject3.x86_64 3.0.1-1.fc16 @updates-testing
selinux-policy.noarch 3.10.0-36.fc16 @updates-testing
selinux-policy-targeted.noarch
3.10.0-36.fc16 @updates-testing
skype.i586 2.2.0.35-fc10 @/skype-2.2.0.35-fedora.i586
* Last 20 packages installed (rpm -qa --nodigest --nosignature --last | head -20):
iptraf-3.0.1-11.fc15 Sat 08 Oct 2011 10:37:55 PM BRT
cups-libs-1.5.0-14.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:42 PM BRT
qt-x11-4.8.0-0.12.20111002.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:41 PM BRT
qt-4.8.0-0.12.20111002.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:38 PM BRT
glib2-2.30.0-2.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:35 PM BRT
system-config-date-1.9.66-1.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:32 PM BRT
google-chrome-beta-15.0.874.83-104223 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:17 PM BRT
postgresql-jdbc-9.1.901-1.fc16.1 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:10 PM BRT
tftp-5.1-1.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:09 PM BRT
tftp-server-5.1-1.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:06 PM BRT
biosdevname-0.3.11-5.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:06 PM BRT
stunnel-4.44-1.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:05 PM BRT
telepathy-salut-0.5.2-1.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:04 PM BRT
qemu-img-0.15.0-5.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:03 PM BRT
telepathy-mission-control-5.9.3-1.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:02 PM BRT
gnome-color-manager-3.2.0-3.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:43:00 PM BRT
libmx-1.3.2-1.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:42:59 PM BRT
clutter-gst-1.4.2-1.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:42:58 PM BRT
net-snmp-utils-5.7.1-2.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:42:57 PM BRT
net-snmp-python-5.7.1-2.fc16 Fri 07 Oct 2011 03:42:57 PM BRT
OK to send? [y/N]: y
Uploading (16.7KiB)...
http://fpaste.org/QL1G/
notebook $>
Screenshot for fpaste:
Tchê, that’s all folks! Simple and easy!! And please, do not past anymore log/code into your friend’s IM. See you guys!!
