Failed attempt to fpaste UEFI failure data

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX]

On 12/14/2013 09:12 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 04:46 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
>> While in RC1.1 anaconda booted with UEFI I was able
>> to ftp the files in /tmp to my server.  I then rebooted
>> my office machine to RC1.1 that had been installed
>> without UEFI.  I tried fpaste again on these files and
>> fpaste failed again:
>>
>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen      149K Dec 14 04:32 syslog
>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       24K Dec 14 04:32 storage.state
>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen      203K Dec 14 04:32 storage.log
>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       112 Dec 14 04:32 sensitive-info.log
>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       38K Dec 14 04:32 program.log
>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen      185K Dec 14 04:32 packaging.log
>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen      1.8K Dec 14 04:32 ifcfg.log
>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       20K Dec 14 04:32 anaconda.log
>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       351 Dec 14 04:32 anaconda-yum.conf
>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       34K Dec 14 04:32 X.log
>> [caf at omen h]$ cat foo
>> [root at omen3 ~]# fpaste /o/tmp/h/*
>> WARNING: your paste size (812.2KiB) is very large and may be rejected by
>> the server. A pastebin is NOT a file hosting service!
>> Uploading (812.2KiB)...
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>     File "/bin/fpaste", line 447, in <module>
>>       main()
>>     File "/bin/fpaste", line 414, in main
>>       [url, short_url] = paste(text, options)
>>     File "/bin/fpaste", line 127, in paste
>>       response = json.loads(f.read())
>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
>>       return _default_decoder.decode(s)
>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 365, in decode
>>       obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 383, in raw_decode
>>       raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
>> ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
>>
>> It does appear fpaste is broken.
> Nope. It told you what was going on right at the top:
>
> "WARNING: your paste size (812.2KiB) is very large and may be rejected
> by the server. A pastebin is NOT a file hosting service!"
>
> It only takes up to 500KiB at a time. If you have somewhere to host the
> files from, there's no need to fpaste, just put them there for us to
> look at; otherwise, fpaste them one at a time.
I fpasted them one at a time just now.

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      Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX   caf at omen.com   www.omen.com
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