Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:45:47 +0100 | From | Denys Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames |
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On 03/12/2012 08:08 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:58:31 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> This is better, isn't it? >> Wouldn't it be nice if gdb would retrieve binary's name by itself? > > Yes, that yum should have been executed automatically, instead of just > suggested by that: > Try: yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='*-debuginfo' install /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/ec/1fd70dbee0db36eff9527254d9d2bbfd260f13
My network is down. "yum install" won't work.
> But this is a user interface issue, it was discussed with PackageKit people > etc. but it went nowhere. > > Sorry but I cannot code the whole OS myself including all the Gnome UI > interfaces. > >> (BTW: nothing prevents it from checking build ids and refusing >> to use it if they don't match.) > > And if they do not match it will need to run the yum command above anyway. > So why to code two ways where the first one (by filename) works only sometimes > while the second way works always?
My network is down. "yum install" won't work.
>> Does it follow from the above that filenames are *never* useful? > > They can be sometimes useful but they are superseded by build-ids; with > build-ids they can be safely ignored.
I just gave you an example where filename is useful. -- vda
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