Recent glibc (2.11, in current rawhide) store assertion messages into the variable __abort_msg before aborting. This is very useful information that abrt should extract and place prominently in the bug report. Soon glib's g_assert facility will employ the same mechanism. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594872 Here is how it works: [mclasen@planemask Desktop]$ cat test.c #include <assert.h> int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { assert (1 < 0); } [mclasen@planemask Desktop]$ make test cc test.c -o test [mclasen@planemask Desktop]$ ./test test: test.c:5: main: Assertion `1 < 0' failed. Aborted (core dumped) [mclasen@planemask Desktop]$ gdb --batch --ex 'print (char*) __abort_msg' ./test core.3618 Core was generated by `./test'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x0000003addc326c5 in raise (sig=<value optimized out>) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 64 return INLINE_SYSCALL (tgkill, 3, pid, selftid, sig); $1 = 0x1fe2080 "test: test.c:5: main: Assertion `1 < 0' failed.\n"
Done so in git, will be in 1.0.4
abrt-1.0.4-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-1.0.4-1.fc12
Thanks for implementing this ! Unfortunately, it turns out that making glib2 use the variable for its assertion messages does not work out (since the glibc symbol is marked as GLIBC_PRIVATE, and rpm won't let us add a dependency against such symbols to glib2). Therefore, glib2 will have to use its own variable, __glib_assert_msg, for this purpose. Can I ask you to include that variable in abrt reports as well, at least for binaries that link against libglib-2.0.so ?
abrt-1.0.4-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Hmm, reopening again. See comment 3.
Just to clarify: in current rawhide, assert() and friends in glibc store their message in __assert_msg, while g_assert() and friends in glib2 store their message in __glib_assert_msg. We are currently investigating if we can somehow make glib use __assert_msg in some other way.
Waitasec. Is it __assert_msg or __abort_msg?
__abort_msg and __glib_assert_msg are the correct names. Sorry for the confusion.
fixed in git.
abrt-1.0.6-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-1.0.6-1.fc12
abrt-1.0.6-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update abrt'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1470
abrt-1.0.6-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.