[libvirt] [PATCH] Augment bug reporting documentation

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Nov 10 12:18:23 UTC 2010


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 :-)

  pushed !

Daniel

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