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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 8:58 pm    Post subject: [solved]gdb won't give me a back trace of a running process Reply with quote

While trying to debug a user mode linux issue I got
Code:
tfoerste@n22 ~ $ sudo gdb /home/tfoerste/devel/linux/linux 15576 -n -batch -ex bt
warning: process 15576 is already traced by process 971
ptrace: Operation not permitted.
/home/tfoerste/15576: No such file or directory.
No stack.
WHat irritates me is "/home/tfoerste/15576" - shouldn't gdb look into /proc instead ?

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is process 971?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that is the "root" of all linux - processes of the user mode linux guests:
Code:
$ pgrep -a linux
971 /home/tfoerste/devel/linux/linux earlyprintk ubda=/home/tfoerste/virtual/uml/trinity ubdb=/mnt/ramdisk/trinity_swap eth0=tuntap,tap0,72:ef:3d:9f:c3:5a mem=1025M con0=fd:0,fd:1 con=pts umid=uml_trinity rootfstype=ext4
978 /home/tfoerste/devel/linux/linux earlyprintk ubda=/home/tfoerste/virtual/uml/trinity ubdb=/mnt/ramdisk/trinity_swap eth0=tuntap,tap0,72:ef:3d:9f:c3:5a mem=1025M con0=fd:0,fd:1 con=pts umid=uml_trinity rootfstype=ext4
979 /home/tfoerste/devel/linux/linux earlyprintk ubda=/home/tfoerste/virtual/uml/trinity ubdb=/mnt/ramdisk/trinity_swap eth0=tuntap,tap0,72:ef:3d:9f:c3:5a mem=1025M con0=fd:0,fd:1 con=pts umid=uml_trinity rootfstype=ext4
980 /home/tfoerste/devel/linux/linux earlyprintk ubda=/home/tfoerste/virtual/uml/trinity ubdb=/mnt/ramdisk/trinity_swap eth0=tuntap,tap0,72:ef:3d:9f:c3:5a mem=1025M con0=fd:0,fd:1 con=pts umid=uml_trinity rootfstype=ext4
981 linux
1072 linux
1774 linux
5940 linux
5943 linux
6076 linux
6156 linux
6456 linux
6713 linux
6881 linux
6945 linux
7143 linux
7185 linux
7187 linux
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try:
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sudo gdb /home/tfoerste/devel/linux/linux 971 -n -batch -ex bt


I don't think you'll ever get 15576 because 15576 is forked
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 9:57 pm    Post subject: Re: gdb won't give me a back trace of a running process Reply with quote

toralf wrote:
While trying to debug a user mode linux issue I got
Code:
tfoerste@n22 ~ $ sudo gdb /home/tfoerste/devel/linux/linux 15576 -n -batch -ex bt
warning: process 15576 is already traced by process 971
ptrace: Operation not permitted.
/home/tfoerste/15576: No such file or directory.
No stack.
WHat irritates me is "/home/tfoerste/15576" - shouldn't gdb look into /proc instead ?
GDB tried to attach to the process and failed. It then tried to treat the identifier as a program in the current working directory. Arguably, it should skip that latter check if the former found a valid process but still failed to attach.

You cannot ptrace a process that is already under ptrace. According to the gdb output, process 971 is already tracing your target. Normally, I would suggest killing 971 and trying again, but since you say that is the UML process, killing it might bring down the whole UML environment.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ah - thx.
So probably worth a minor bug report/enhancement request.
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