Handle emptying corrupted console log files

Libvirt will someones write junk out to console log files, which breaks
the log parser deque with a UnicodeDecodeError.

If this happens, clear the log and re-open the deque again for newer
updates.

Closes #123
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Joshua Boniface 2021-05-10 01:03:04 -04:00
parent 62c84664fc
commit 5ceb57e540
1 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -44,7 +44,14 @@ class VMConsoleWatcherInstance(object):
open(self.logfile, 'a').close()
os.chmod(self.logfile, 0o600)
self.logdeque = deque(open(self.logfile), self.console_log_lines)
try:
self.logdeque = deque(open(self.logfile), self.console_log_lines)
except UnicodeDecodeError:
# There is corruption in the log file; overwrite it
self.logger.out('Failed to decode console log file; clearing existing file', state='w', prefix='Domain {}'.format(self.domuuid))
with open(self.logfile, 'w') as lfh:
lfh.write('\n')
self.logdeque = deque(open(self.logfile), self.console_log_lines)
self.stamp = None
self.cached_stamp = None