Bug 1024504 - Please make it easier to find the backtrace of the crashing thread
Summary: Please make it easier to find the backtrace of the crashing thread
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdb
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jan Kratochvil
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-29 19:52 UTC by Miloslav Trmač
Modified: 2015-06-25 08:24 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gdb-7.9.1-16.fc22
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-06-19 14:45:02 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Miloslav Trmač 2013-10-29 19:52:56 UTC
Description of problem:
Looking at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=696390 in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910262:

> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  js::PropertyTable::search (this=0x3b0813f960 <js_ArrayClass>, id=253538485472, adding=false) at jsscope.cpp:308
> 308	    stored = *spp;
>
> Thread 5 (Thread 0x7f08977b6700 (LWP 831)):
> #0  0x0000003adf8e998d in poll () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:81
> No locals.
...

This doesn't tell me which thread has crashed, and after the relevant single line starts with a backtrace of a probably irrelevant thread.

Please consider:
1) indicating which thread crashed (... terminated with signal 11 in thread 1)
2) listing the backtrace of the crashing thread before backtraces of any other threads

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Comment 2 Jakub Filak 2015-01-09 21:55:12 UTC
Re-assigning from satyr to gdb because backtraces that ABRT attaches to bugzilla bugs are generated by gdb.

Comment 3 Jan Kratochvil 2015-01-11 20:02:07 UTC
At least as a workaround ABRT could just send also "-ex thread" before "-ex bt" so that the current thread is printed.  GDB could print it in non-interactive mode although (1) I am not sure if ABRT runs it in a way GDB detects it as non-interactive and (2) I am not sure if GDB upstream accepts different output in non-interactive mode than in interactive mode. (3) For interactive mode the thread identification seems redundant to me as one is already switched to the crashing thread.

Comment 4 Jan Kratochvil 2015-01-15 18:34:46 UTC
[patch] Sort threads for thread apply all (bt)
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-01/msg00433.html

Comment 5 Jakub Filak 2015-01-19 07:10:32 UTC
(In reply to Jan Kratochvil from comment #4)
> [patch] Sort threads for thread apply all (bt)
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-01/msg00433.html

Jan, I am impressed! The "-asc" argument for "thread apply all" is fabulous. Thanks!

Comment 6 Jan Kratochvil 2015-01-23 16:52:32 UTC
It is now upstreamed but what should be backported into which Fedora versions so that it can be used by ABRT?

I do not think this message should be backported to F-20/F-21 as it may break compatibility (despite CLI parsing is discouraged apps do it, incl. ABRT):
  [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7fcbe28fe700 (LWP 15453))]

The new parameter "-ascending" to "thread apply all" could be backported even to F-20/F-21, will ABRT use it there?  Obviously using "-ascending" with current/older GDB errors out:
  Undefined command: "-ascending".  Try "help".

Comment 7 Jakub Filak 2015-01-26 13:24:50 UTC
Jan, we are currently overwhelmed by work on F22, so I hope we will not upset anybody, if just push your patches to Rawhide. But if you have time, backport  the patches to F21 and I will release an updated ABRT packages in few months.

Comment 8 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 16:56:37 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22

Comment 9 Jakub Filak 2015-06-19 14:37:23 UTC
Upstream commit https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/500a863ce4f7307e6a093b2063284434e4c3aa9d adds the argument '-ascending' to abrt, however, we have to teach the retrace sever to use that argument too:
https://github.com/abrt/retrace-server/issues/77

Comment 10 Jan Kratochvil 2015-06-19 14:45:02 UTC
comment 9 will be in: gdb-7.9.1-16.fc22
Displaying of the current thread (thread 1) after loading a core file is already in F-23+ (I do not plan an F-22 backport).

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2015-06-19 15:21:52 UTC
gdb-7.9.1-16.fc22 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 22.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdb-7.9.1-16.fc22

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2015-06-25 08:24:38 UTC
gdb-7.9.1-16.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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