another abrt problem

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 12:28:37 UTC 2013


Jiri Moskovcak wrote:

> On 03/04/2013 01:17 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Is it possible to use abrt as intended and still be able to get core dumps
>> from
>> non-fedora binaries (e.g., my own code)?  Right now, all core dumps are
>> redirected to abrt.
>>
>> We need a way to be able to use gdb to debug core dumps.
>>
>> I know we can turn off abrt entirely
>> /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
>>
>> but that's not acceptable!
>>
>> We need a way that allows abrt to be used for fedora packages, while at the
>> same time allowing capturing core dumps to run gdb on for non-fedora
>> packages.
>>
>> If there is a way in the current abrt design, it is not sufficiently
>> obvious/discoverable.
>>
>>
> 
> Hi,
> I'm pretty sure there is a way to achieve this with the current abrt
> design, can you please describe how do you imagine this should work?
> 
> Thank you,
> Jirka

One possibility would be to simply add an dialog to abrt-gui to save the core 
dump to some user-specified location.  It could offer to run gdb, but that's not 
necessary.

I suppose it would also be good to have a non-gui option as well, but I don't 
know what that would be.



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