Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Augment bug reporting documentation

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:34:23AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:01:15AM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote: >> With some instruction on how to attach useful gdb backtraces [...] >> + <pre> # ps -o etime,pid `pgrep libvirt` >> +... note the process id from the output >> +# gdb /usr/sbin/libvirtd >> +.... some informations about gdb and loading debug data >> +(gdb) attach $the_damon_process_id >> +.... >> +(gdb) thread apply all bt >> +.... informations to attach to the bug >> +(gdb) >> +</pre> > > You don't need to specify the /usr/sbin/libvirtd binary name on the > command line to GDB if you're about to use 'attach', because GDB will > find it automatically from the PID, but ACK anyway okay, just that I always do it that way, and since that's the only example of gdb usage on that page, being a bit more complete should not hurt :-)