I found the issue in the yocto based distribution: elfutils / libdw was compiled without xz support, and was thus unable to extract the minidebuginfo symbol names.
On Ubuntu / Fedora, I don't know exactly what the issue is.
Etienne
On Ubuntu / Fedora, I don't know exactly what the issue is.
Etienne
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 11:53 PM Etienne Cordonnier <ecordonnier@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for your reply. I have tested with Fedora 39 and indeed coredumpctl info shows function names when a binary provided by a Fedora package crashes. However, when I compile a test binary on Fedora, even with debug symbols enabled (I tried -g and -ggdb), and I then send kill -SEGV my binary, coredumpctl info shows "n/a" instead of the function names of my test binary. I also tried to inject minidebuginfo into my binary file with the same result.
Do you know what I should do so that coredumpctl info also works with binary files I compile? (I added full reproduction steps including the code of this test binary to https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/761966/how-to-get-symbolized-call-stacks-with-coredumpctl-info ).
EtienneOn Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 10:03 AM Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Do, 16.11.23 18:37, Etienne Cordonnier (ecordonnier@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Hello,
> I am testing a yocto based system, where it seems that "coredumpctl info"
> isn't able to use minidebuginfo / gnu_debugdata to extract a symbolized
> call-stack. I saw in the code that coredumpctl uses elfutils / libdwfl in
> order to extract a call-stack, and as far as I understand libdwfl supports
> minidebuginfo since this commit (
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sourceware.org_git_-3Fp-3Delfutils.git-3Ba-3Dcommit-3Bh-3D5083a70d3b64946fa47ea5766943a15a3ecc6891&d=DwIBAg&c=ncDTmphkJTvjIDPh0hpF_4vCHvabgGkICC2epckfdiw&r=AhkbNonVuMIGRfPx_Qj9TsRih1DULJTKUkSGa66m67E&m=HRBTXvbd-s9li256Vbbs9zIn33TULJrpWyLD4WV4rEtaedXG1zYgtpXt1vN3eolJ&s=WjU-C5bJAjCxwlzGD-CwjTBUFN_ZEr7Z1pFNC54_HU0&e=
> ).
>
> Is there a configuration / build-option / etc. to enable support for
> minidebuginfo in coredumpctl? If no is it on the roadmap? The advantage of
> minidebuginfo is that it is much smaller than full debug symbols.
Fedora has been using minidebuginfo since ~10y or so, and
coredumctl/libdwfl has been working fine with it. So it certainly
works, it's how this all works on my local machine since forever.
Maybe ask your distro for help, it's generally an integration issue of
distributions i this doesn't work.
Lennart
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