Re: Backtrace extraction ONLY gdb

Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-24T05:25:03Z

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:51:42 +0100, Maucci, Cyrille wrote:
> . the core files are multi GB large and the 'separate' host is not located on the customer network.
> . you not only need the core files but the libs to debug the core.
> Indeed, you could argue to setup a 'replica' system to read the core
> file, but when you've got dozens of customers with dozens of different
> software versions, this becomes the nightmare.

This is solved by the ABRT project https://fedorahosted.org/abrt/wiki
automatically getting the right binaries and debug info versions by the
build-id present in any binary and core file (with properly configured GCC).

It is now deploying a http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RetraceServer .
If there are security concerns about running GDB locally (as ABRT has been
doing before RetraceServer so far) isn't there located a host for backtraces
in LAN where multi-GB transfers are not an issue?

Regards,
Jan