Has kernel update history logging in /var/log/zypp/history changed recently?

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Hi folks,

I had been using the following to determine when a kernel update was applied:

cat /var/log/zypp/history |grep kernel-d|grep ok

And getting a result like:

2017-05-03 13:23:32 kernel-default-4.10.13-1.1.x86_64.rpm installed ok

But since the above entry I’ve been thru several updates but don’t see them using the above command.
If I use instead:

cat /var/log/zypp/history |grep kernel-d

Then I get the following type output:

2017-05-03 13:23:32 kernel-default-4.10.13-1.1.x86_64.rpm installed ok

2017-05-03 13:23:32|install|kernel-default|4.10.13-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|15d9511e0d6b1dc8c3c27e4423d95616e493d1b3|
2017-05-18 07:34:27|install|kernel-default|4.11.0-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|975df94957c6616bde8352f48d936852deac1af0|
2017-05-23 09:43:05|install|kernel-default|4.11.1-1.2|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|51812faf367102ccb529d4c460d21e6530695515|
2017-05-28 11:00:38|install|kernel-default|4.11.2-1.2|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|e2e1fe04d715b3d5335274d2c28b300f22b517ef|
2017-06-03 12:03:16|install|kernel-default|4.11.3-1.2|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|9d55ce17c60bdd5ff2da639ea2b78db8ca1c1a1e|
2017-06-14 09:22:14|install|kernel-default|4.11.4-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|bfde818d5e3a58fb20196f27b2d89369622714f0|
2017-06-19 07:27:51|install|kernel-default|4.11.5-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|fa74fd94aa8b2e2816309f4e9e832e64eee6dd04|

And uname -a indicates I’m currently at 4.11.5-1-default which matches the last entry above

uname -a

Linux cruiselite 4.11.5-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 14 14:24:30 UTC 2017 (8ffa6bb) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So I’m getting updates but not the ‘installed ok’ message in /var/log/zypp/history.
is this normal behavior? How would I know if something were amiss during a kernel update?

Thanks!

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2017-05-03 13:23:32|install|kernel-default|4.10.13-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|15d9511e0d6b1dc8c3c27e4423d95616e493d1b3|
2017-05-18 07:34:27|install|kernel-default|4.11.0-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|975df94957c6616bde8352f48d936852deac1af0|
2017-05-23 09:43:05|install|kernel-default|4.11.1-1.2|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|51812faf367102ccb529d4c460d21e6530695515|
2017-05-28 11:00:38|install|kernel-default|4.11.2-1.2|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|e2e1fe04d715b3d5335274d2c28b300f22b517ef|
2017-06-03 12:03:16|install|kernel-default|4.11.3-1.2|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|9d55ce17c60bdd5ff2da639ea2b78db8ca1c1a1e|
2017-06-14 09:22:14|install|kernel-default|4.11.4-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|bfde818d5e3a58fb20196f27b2d89369622714f0|
2017-06-19 07:27:51|install|kernel-default|4.11.5-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|fa74fd94aa8b2e2816309f4e9e832e64eee6dd04|

As you can see, there is no ok in the line…

And you grep this with “ok”, so no output…l…

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Understood that the above lines do not have “ok” in them and that is what my question pertains to.
Prior to 05/04/2017 the /var/log/zypp/history file did contain lines for the kernel updates that had ‘ok’

cat /var/log/zypp/history |grep kernel-d|grep ok
# 2017-04-25 14:00:08 kernel-default-4.10.10-1.2.x86_64.rpm installed **ok**
# 2017-04-28 07:58:44 kernel-default-4.10.12-1.1.x86_64.rpm installed **ok**
# 2017-05-03 13:23:32 kernel-default-4.10.13-1.1.x86_64.rpm installed **ok**

But after that I have still received kernel updates but the history file does not show them the same way.

cat /var/log/zypp/history |grep kernel-d
# 2017-04-25 14:00:08 **kernel-d**efault-4.10.10-1.2.x86_64.rpm installed ok 
2017-04-25 14:00:08|install|**kernel-d**efault|4.10.10-1.2|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|0f15f608f792d1485c588761808446e571b260a5| 
# 2017-04-28 07:58:44 **kernel-d**efault-4.10.12-1.1.x86_64.rpm installed ok 
2017-04-28 07:58:44|install|**kernel-d**efault|4.10.12-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|0ec5bd92b6c617322a7f301d0d6f79fbcbe13539| 
# 2017-05-03 13:23:32 **kernel-d**efault-4.10.13-1.1.x86_64.rpm installed ok 
2017-05-03 13:23:32|install|**kernel-d**efault|4.10.13-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|15d9511e0d6b1dc8c3c27e4423d95616e493d1b3| 
2017-05-18 07:34:27|install|**kernel-d**efault|4.11.0-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|975df94957c6616bde8352f48d936852deac1af0| 
2017-05-23 09:43:05|install|**kernel-d**efault|4.11.1-1.2|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|51812faf367102ccb529d4c460d21e6530695515| 
2017-05-28 11:00:38|install|**kernel-d**efault|4.11.2-1.2|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|e2e1fe04d715b3d5335274d2c28b300f22b517ef| 
2017-06-03 12:03:16|install|**kernel-d**efault|4.11.3-1.2|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|9d55ce17c60bdd5ff2da639ea2b78db8ca1c1a1e| 
2017-06-14 09:22:14|install|**kernel-d**efault|4.11.4-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|bfde818d5e3a58fb20196f27b2d89369622714f0| 
2017-06-19 07:27:51|install|**kernel-d**efault|4.11.5-1.1|x86_64||openSUSE-20160613-0|fa74fd94aa8b2e2816309f4e9e832e64eee6dd04|

So as you can see, the last 6 updates (from 2017/05/18 and forward) just show the ‘install | kernel-default’ line but not the ‘ok’ line but the first 6 lines have an ‘installed ok’ line and a corresponding ‘install | kernel-default’ line so I was trying to determine if that is normal output. More a curiosity than anything.

Thanks!

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Do you see, if there is a second line in the histrory?

Here on Leap it is working.

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If I cat the history file there is a lot of other items in there and I don’t see a pattern for the kernel updates easily.
I appreciate the assistance anyway but it was more my curiosity than a problem so I think I am good. :slight_smile:

Thanks!