# HG changeset patch # User john.levon(a)sun.com # Date 1233870902 28800 # Node ID fe7d1aae6184476568fcd3da379207375d8a05a6 # Parent 9fecb1254ee1dad6efeedc50239852104a6f40e2 Improve error reporting in virsh Rather than verbosely printing every error, save the last error and report that only if the entire command fails. Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon(a)sun.com&gt; diff --git a/src/virsh.c b/src/virsh.c --- a/src/virsh.c +++ b/src/virsh.c @@ -93,22 +93,6 @@ typedef enum { } vshErrorLevel; /* - * The error handler for virsh - */ -static void -virshErrorHandler(void *unused, virErrorPtr error) -{ - if ((unused != NULL) || (error == NULL)) - return; - - /* Suppress the VIR_ERR_NO_XEN error which fails as non-root */ - if ((error->code == VIR_ERR_NO_XEN) || (error->code == VIR_ERR_OK)) - return; - - virDefaultErrorFunc(error); -} - -/* * virsh command line grammar: * * command_line = <command>\n | <command>; <command>; ... @@ -319,6 +303,46 @@ static int namesorter(const void *a, con const char **sb = (const char**)b; return strcasecmp(*sa, *sb); +} + +static virErrorPtr last_error; + +/* + * Quieten libvirt until we're done with the command. + */ +static void +virshErrorHandler(void *unused, virErrorPtr error) +{ + virFreeError(last_error); + last_error = virSaveLastError(); + if (getenv("VIRSH_DEBUG") != NULL) + virDefaultErrorFunc(error); +} + +/* + * Report an error when a command finishes. This is better than before + * (when correct operation would report errors), but it has some + * problems: we lose the smarter formatting of virDefaultErrorFunc(), + * and it can become harder to debug problems, if errors get reported + * twice during one command. This case shouldn't really happen anyway, + * and it's IMHO a bug that libvirt does that sometimes. + */ +static void +virshReportError(vshControl *ctl) +{ + if (last_error == NULL) + return; + + if (last_error->code == VIR_ERR_OK) { + vshError(ctl, FALSE, "%s", _("unknown error")); + goto out; + } + + vshError(ctl, FALSE, "%s", last_error->message); + +out: + virFreeError(last_error); + last_error = NULL; } @@ -6102,6 +6126,9 @@ vshCommandRun(vshControl *ctl, const vsh if (ctl->timing) GETTIMEOFDAY(&after); + + if (ret == FALSE) + virshReportError(ctl); if (STREQ(cmd->def->name, "quit")) /* hack ... */ return ret;