From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3586 invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2011 05:25:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 3522 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Mar 2011 05:25:01 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SARE_SPEC_REPLICA_OBFU,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:24:52 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2O5OaTv025333 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:24:36 -0400 Received: from host1.jankratochvil.net (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2O5OY76020743 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:24:36 -0400 Received: from host1.jankratochvil.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by host1.jankratochvil.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2O5OXDY020300; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:24:33 +0100 Received: (from jkratoch@localhost) by host1.jankratochvil.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p2O5OW0R020283; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:24:32 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:25:00 -0000 From: Jan Kratochvil To: "Maucci, Cyrille" Cc: Joel Brobecker , Eli Zaretskii , "gdb@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: Backtrace extraction ONLY gdb Message-ID: <20110324052431.GA24500@host1.jankratochvil.net> References: <0E02F16954AF394BB163AEE50FDF5485690094DFED@GVW1121EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> <8339mg9unq.fsf@gnu.org> <0E02F16954AF394BB163AEE50FDF548569009DAB5A@GVW1121EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> <20110323224339.GS2534@adacore.com> <0E02F16954AF394BB163AEE50FDF548569009DAB62@GVW1121EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0E02F16954AF394BB163AEE50FDF548569009DAB62@GVW1121EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00142.txt.bz2 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