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Description of problem: find-debuginfo.sh that is present in rpm-4.8.0-16.el6 does not handle several binaries with the same build id well. The symbolic link pointing from debuginfo back to the binary (/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/<aa>/<bbbbb>) points to only one of the identical binaries. In this situation it is not possible to get the list of all packages required to analyze a coredump from the coredump itself. Coredumps contain build-ids, but debuginfo packages cannot be used to get the binaries (paths) that can be turned into packages (for example, when a package containing the symlink target is not available in a RHEL variant). This lowers the success rate of ABRT's retrace server, which is being used to analyze coredumps from customers. The fix for this is already present in Fedora. find-debuginfo.sh in Fedora creates additional .2, .3,... symlinks to handle additional instances of binary with a build-id. Please consider backporting the Fedora extension/fix to RHEL-6. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Crash /bin/perl from perl-5.10.1-119.el6.i686, get a coredump. 2. Coredump contains build-id f848b9e8ff059b14becc9acb6dfaf49d5e5052b0 3. /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/f8/48b9e8ff059b14becc9acb6dfaf49d5e5052b0 points to /usr/bin/suidperl, which is not available. Expected results: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/f8/48b9e8ff059b14becc9acb6dfaf49d5e5052b0 points to /usr/bin/suidperl /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/f8/48b9e8ff059b14becc9acb6dfaf49d5e5052b0.2 points to /bin/perl
Since RHEL 6.2 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or blocker. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
devel_ack for the rpm side, but gdb needs to be patched to support this as well.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0461.html