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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Add ability to see list of running trace sessions after 'plugins' item was introduced","articleBody":"On FB 6.x since 20-aug-2025 list of sessions contain name of ```plugin```, see: [f9ac3d34](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/commit/f9ac3d34117ee7006be9cc0baca79b3aaf075111)\n(\"Print trace plugins in tracecmgr LIST output\")\n\nCurrent version of firebird-driver can not correctly handle this and fails on obtaining content of srv.trace.sessions with:\n\"firebird.driver.types.InterfaceError: Unexpected line in trace session list: plugins: \u003cdefault\u003e\"\n\nOf course, one may to launch ```subprocess.Popen(['fbsvcmgr', 'action_trace_list' ... ])``` and parse its output - but this is inconvenient.\n\nWe have two QA tests: [7139](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-qa/blob/master/tests/bugs/gh_7139_test.py), [7141](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-qa/blob/master/tests/bugs/gh_7141_test.py) -- that still fail on attempt to get list of running trace sessions.\nError stack tail:\n```\n             else:  # pragma: no cover\n\u003e               raise InterfaceError(f\"Unexpected line in trace session list: {line}\")\nE               firebird.driver.types.InterfaceError: Unexpected line in trace session list:   plugins: \u003cdefault\u003e\n```\n(tickets: [7139](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/7139); [7141](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/7141))\n\nIt seems that it is sufficient to add small change in the core.py source:\n\u003cimg width=\"1671\" height=\"274\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7b316c51-a978-4a3d-b11b-c1a275592a1a\" /\u003e\n\nPatch: [core-patch-for-tracelist-plugins-item.patch.zip](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/22185475/core-patch-for-tracelist-plugins-item.patch.zip)\n\nPlease add ability to use new item in the trace list (```'plugins'```).\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/pavel-zotov","@type":"Person","name":"pavel-zotov"},"datePublished":"2025-09-06T08:35:14.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/55/python3-driver/issues/55"}