FWTS(1)

💖 FWTS(1) — the fwts-collect girlies' guide 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual for fwts-collect, and no cap, this one is a whole mood. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

fwts-collect — collect logs for fwts bug reporting. that's the whole vibe, that's the assignment 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fwts-collect [FILES]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

this manual page documents, briefly, the fwts-collect firmware test suite log collecting tool. the tea is: fwts-collect collects logs plus a bunch of system and firmware dumps into the gzip'd tar ball fwts-logs.tar.gz, and then you can just yeet that thing into your bug reports. iconic behaviour, honestly.

so what does it scoop up? it collects data from:

• /proc/iomem
• /proc/mtrr
• /proc/interrupts
• IRQ counts from /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts
• kernel logs

and it also invokes fwts and gathers:

• ACPI tables
• memorymaps
• MultiProcessor table dumps
• CMOS data
• UEFI variables
• kernel version and ACPI version information

🚨 okay important: fwts using sudo is required. like, required required. no sudo, no slay.

running fwts with no options will collect logs automatically — it just does it, main character energy ✨. however, you can also specify the names of additional files to be added to the gzip'd tar ball. your files, your rules, periodt.

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

gather up logs into fwts-logs.tar.gz:

sudo fwts-collect

gather up logs and also /var/log/pm-powersave.log:

sudo fwts-collect /var/log/pm-powersave.log

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

fwts(1), dmidecode(8), lspci(8)

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

fwts-collect was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> 💖

this manual page was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others). sharing is caring fr fr 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie!! written up on 5 February, 2015 for the FWTS(1) manual, and honestly? it ate. go collect those logs 💅✨🦋