On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:01:15AM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
With some instruction on how to attach useful gdb backtraces
Daniel
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<p> + If the bug leads to a tool linked to libvirt crash, then the best + is to provide a backtrace along with the scenario used to get the + crash, the simplest is to run the program under gdb, reproduce the + steps leading to the crash and then issue a gdb "bt" command to + get the stack trace, attach it to the bug. Note that for the + data to be really useful libvirt debug informations must be present + for example by installing libvirt debuginfo package on Fedora or + Red Hat Enterprise Linux (with debuginfo-install libvirt) prior + to running gdb.</p> + <p> + It may also happen that the libvirt daemon itself crashes or get stuck, + in the first case run it (as root) under gdb, and reproduce the sequence + leading to the crash, similary to a normal program provide the + "bt" backtrace information to where gdb will have stopped.<br/> + But if libvirtd get stuck, for example seems to stop processing + commands, try to attach to the faulty daemon and issue a gdb command + "thread apply all bt" to show all the threads backtraces, as in:</p> + <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 Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|