Bug 315625 – app-text/multitail-5.2.6 provides incomplete output

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Juergen Rose 2010-04-16 16:20:41 UTC]

If multitail is called show the output of a command, the output of multitail is mostly incomplete. Usually the last two lines of the command output is missing.
I will attach an example script which passes the same function as parameter to 'watch' and to 'multitail'. I would expect almost the same output. But only the output of watch is so as expected. The output of 'multitail' is instable and show the described error.



Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Juergen Rose 2010-04-16 16:22:06 UTC]

Created attachment 228043 [details]
A script calling watch and multitail

[Comment 2 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2011-01-07 14:13:18 UTC]

Icannot reproduce this. Your script shows always ten lines, both with watch and mutlitail.

[Comment 3 Juergen Rose 2011-01-07 19:14:56 UTC]

Created attachment 259226 [details]
Bildschirmfoto-watch.png

[Comment 4 Juergen Rose 2011-01-07 19:15:31 UTC]

Created attachment 259227 [details]
Bildschirmfoto_multitail.png

[Comment 5 Juergen Rose 2011-01-07 19:17:52 UTC]

If I start this script (n=10), I see with watch 10 lines, compare the attachment Bildschirmfoto-watch.png. If I kill watch with ^C, multitail shows only 8 lines, compare the attachment Bildschirmfoto_multitail.png.

[Comment 6 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2011-01-07 19:24:08 UTC]

For me it is fine. Please file a bug upstream for that.

[Comment 7 Juergen Rose 2011-01-07 19:25:55 UTC]

Sorry for the wrong mime type of the attachment Bildschirmfoto-watch.png and Bildschirmfoto_multitail.png.

[Comment 8 Juergen Rose 2011-01-07 19:33:26 UTC]

Created attachment 259228 [details]
/etc/multitail.conf

[Comment 9 Juergen Rose 2011-01-07 19:34:15 UTC]

Hi Justin,

could maybe post your /etc/multitail.conf?

Juergen

[Comment 10 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2011-01-07 19:35:32 UTC]

Created attachment 259229 [details]
multitail.conf

[Comment 11 Juergen Rose 2011-01-07 19:57:47 UTC]

Thanks Justin,

With except of your last line 

include:/data/scripts/gentoo

I can't find any significant difference.

[Comment 12 Juergen Rose 2011-01-07 20:10:59 UTC]

The effect happens on all my systems with xterm, gnome-terminal or konsole as terminal window as user rose or as user root. 

I send already some month ago a problem description to 
http://www.vanheusden.com/feedbackform.php?subject=Multitail.

I did it now once more.

Regards

[Comment 13 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-06-24 06:07:26 UTC]

Does 5.2.7 or 5.2.8 fix this issue?

[Comment 14 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2012-01-27 22:16:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #13)
> Does 5.2.7 or 5.2.8 fix this issue?

needinfo