another abrt problem

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 12:37:46 UTC 2013


Jiri Moskovcak wrote:

> On 03/04/2013 01:28 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> You have two options:
> 
> 1) in /etc/abrt/abrt-action-save-package-data.conf you can change the
> option ProcessUnpackaged = no to yes
> 
> 2) you can just set ulimit -c unlimited and abrt will create the core in
> the CWD in format core.<PID> as it is by default without abrt and then
> you can pass it to gdb
> 
> Regards,
> Jirka
> 

If 2), will abrt still operate as normal on fedora package core files?  We don't 
want to permanently disable abrt just to enable normal use of gdb on our own 
code.



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