[Bug 1217407] Re: whoopsie spams the log with "online" messages

Romano Giannetti romano.giannetti at gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 17:01:19 UTC 2014 

@Brian: this is what you see if whoopsie is the only thing reporting on
syslog. If any other thing report something, it breaks the "repeated"
logic of the syslog daemon and you ends up with the thing reported here.

What should happen is that whoopsie should log the "online" message only
when it is BACK online (from offline or other statuses), not every few
seconds of so. The logic would be something like (pseudo code).

if status==ONLINE and last_syslog_message==ONLINE then 
    do nothing
else
    log ONLINE
fi

Meanwhile, a workaround is offered here:
http://askubuntu.com/a/407935/16395:

you can add this in  /etc/rsyslog.d/00-whoopsie.conf and the messages
won't be logged anymore:

  # whoopsie generates a lot of messages of "online"
  # these are worthless and can be filtered
  if $programname == 'whoopsie' and $msg == ' online' then ~

but that way you do not see even the first "online" which is arguably
worth to be logged.

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Title:
  whoopsie spams the log with "online" messages

Status in Ubuntu error tracker client (whoopsie):
  Confirmed
Status in “whoopsie” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  It is mostly the "online" messages:

  $ grep whoopsie /var/log/syslog
  Aug 27 07:42:21 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 07:42:27 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 07:43:32  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 18 times
  Aug 27 07:44:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 17 times
  Aug 27 07:45:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 16 times
  Aug 27 07:46:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 16 times
  Aug 27 07:47:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 18 times
  Aug 27 07:48:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 15 times
  Aug 27 07:49:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 16 times
  Aug 27 07:50:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 21 times
  Aug 27 07:51:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 18 times
  Aug 27 07:52:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 20 times
  Aug 27 07:53:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 22 times
  Aug 27 07:54:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 15 times
  Aug 27 07:55:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 22 times
  Aug 27 07:56:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 20 times
  Aug 27 07:57:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 18 times
  Aug 27 07:58:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 16 times
  Aug 27 07:59:46  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 17 times
  Aug 27 07:59:47 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:00:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 24 times
  Aug 27 08:01:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 24 times
  Aug 27 08:02:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 19 times
  Aug 27 08:03:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 19 times
  Aug 27 08:04:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 17 times
  Aug 27 08:05:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 19 times
  Aug 27 08:06:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 16 times
  Aug 27 08:07:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 18 times
  Aug 27 08:08:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 28 times
  Aug 27 08:09:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 21 times
  Aug 27 08:10:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 22 times
  Aug 27 08:11:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 20 times
  Aug 27 08:12:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 18 times
  Aug 27 08:13:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 16 times
  Aug 27 08:14:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 18 times
  Aug 27 08:15:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 18 times
  Aug 27 08:16:51  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 15 times
  Aug 27 08:17:01  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 2 times
  Aug 27 08:17:12 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:18:21  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 22 times
  Aug 27 08:19:21  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 15 times
  Aug 27 08:19:44  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 5 times
  Aug 27 08:19:44 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:20:48  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 29 times
  Aug 27 08:21:49  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 23 times
  Aug 27 08:22:50  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 24 times
  Aug 27 08:23:05  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 8 times
  Aug 27 08:23:10 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:23:11 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:23:15 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:23:16 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:24:17  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 22 times
  Aug 27 08:24:27 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:24:28 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:25:29  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 17 times
  Aug 27 08:25:40  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 3 times
  Aug 27 08:25:42 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:25:42 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:25:43 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:26:44  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 15 times
  Aug 27 08:26:55  whoopsie[1832]: last message repeated 2 times
  Aug 27 08:26:56 xango3 whoopsie[1832]: online
  Aug 27 08:33:23 xango3 whoopsie[1568]: whoopsie 0.2.23 starting up.
  Aug 27 08:33:23 xango3 whoopsie[1568]: Using lock path: /var/lock/whoopsie/lock
  Aug 27 08:33:23 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: offline
  Aug 27 08:33:27 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: offline
  Aug 27 08:33:27 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:33:28 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:33:29 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:33:29 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:33:30 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:37:19 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:37:20 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:37:27 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:38:45  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 2 times
  Aug 27 08:39:35 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:40:36  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 4 times
  Aug 27 08:41:57 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:43:15  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 4 times
  Aug 27 08:43:51 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:45:15  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 4 times
  Aug 27 08:50:29 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:51:46  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 4 times
  Aug 27 08:52:23 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 08:53:24  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 4 times
  Aug 27 09:07:33 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 09:08:46  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 4 times
  Aug 27 09:09:27 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 09:10:46  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 4 times
  Aug 27 09:26:28 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 09:27:47  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 2 times
  Aug 27 09:41:41 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 09:42:48  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 4 times
  Aug 27 09:43:35 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 09:44:48  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 2 times
  Aug 27 09:54:14 xango3 whoopsie[1794]: online
  Aug 27 09:55:18  whoopsie[1794]: last message repeated 2 times

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: whoopsie 0.2.23
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-4.9-generic 3.11.0-rc7
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-4-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashReports:
   640:109:135:1442457:2013-08-24 15:45:54.414105810 -0500:2013-08-24 15:45:52.882072686 -0500:/var/crash/_usr_bin_nm-applet.109.crash
   640:1000:135:5451572:2013-08-23 10:46:16.804771591 -0500:2013-08-23 10:46:13.688702452 -0500:/var/crash/_usr_share_apport_apport-kde.1000.crash
   640:109:135:3258098:2013-08-24 15:45:52.826071475 -0500:2013-08-24 15:45:50.822028146 -0500:/var/crash/_usr_sbin_unity-greeter.109.crash
   644:0:135:14684:2013-08-27 08:26:39.114007907 -0500:2013-08-19 19:15:13.128538279 -0500:/var/crash/lttng-modules-dkms.0.crash
   640:1000:135:28058162:2013-08-23 11:45:22.587948069 -0500:2013-08-23 11:45:04.267536872 -0500:/var/crash/_usr_bin_calibre.1000.crash
  Date: Tue Aug 27 09:53:16 2013
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-10 (197 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130209)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: whoopsie
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-25 (62 days ago)

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