Re: Decoding stack in core file without correct libs?

Dmitry Samersoff <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:55:15 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gdb.devel
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Pierre,

You can run command (below) on your own machine:

gdb -batch --eval "info shared"  binary core 2> /dev/null |\
 sed -n -e 's/^.*Yes[^\/]*\//\//p' -e 's/^.*No[^\/]*\//\//p'  > filelist

and then do

cat filelist | zip zipme.zip -@

on client's one.

PS: this small article might be helpful.

http://www.samersoff.net/do/index.php/blog/19-articles/56-how-to-open-java-coredump-in-gdb


-Dmitry

On 07/13/2017 12:24 PM, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to see if there is a way to produce binaries so that gdb can
> walk the stack in a core dump even if the libraries gdb sees doesn't
> match the libraries when the core dump was generated.
> 
> My scenario is simply that we might get crashes at customer sites.
> Rather than getting some kind of remote access up an running, it would
> be easier to have them send us a core dump from the crash. We then load
> the core file together with a binary with debug symbols on our end.
> 
> Unfortunately gdb doesn't traverse the stack correctly if the crash is
> in a system library. We just get random addresses for each frame.
> 
> It's okay that we cannot get the proper symbols or local variables for
> frames that are in system libraries, but is there some way to get access
> to the frames that are in our binary?
> 
> Regards

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