On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 11:06:02AM +0000, Tom Hughes via devel wrote: > On 31/01/2024 10:08, Milan Crha wrote: > > > I tried to investigate a rawhide bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253099 > > which is about Evolution being killed "by something". That's the thing, > > I do not know what killed it, thus even why it had been killed. It's > > even not killed after certain steps, it's killed "randomly", on various > > occasions. > > > > I did search the internet, but they usually expect the killer is the > > OOM service, which logs about the action either in the dmesg or in the > > journal, but in this case there is no sign about whom killed it in > > either of these logs. > > > > The evolution terminal just says: > > > > Killed > > At the end of of the day it means a SIGKILL was sent to the process > and that's not something that is logged anywhere as a matter of course > so you're reliant on whatever sends it saying so. > > You're right that OOM is the usual cause so if you've ruled that out > you need to think about other things. > > The problem is that SIGKILL is deliberately a very hard stop that > nothing can trap so normal things like using strace or gdb to catch > who went it aren't going to work. The audit subsystem is probably the first choice to find out what's killing it. Other than that, systemtap or eBPF scripts can be written to trace this. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
