stap is getting a segmentation fault on RHEL 5.1 bets

David Wilder dwilder@us.ibm.com
Fri Oct 5 17:37:00 GMT 2007


Roland McGrath wrote:
>> Any idea what rpmbuild could be doing to the debuginfo files?
>> I looked through the kernel.spec file and found no clues, but I am 
>> unfamiliar with rpm spec files, so I may have missed something.
> 
> Some implicit magic happens after what's written in the spec file.
> Importantly, /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh runs to create the separate
> debuginfo files using eu-strip -f.

Thanks for the pointer.  When I run  "eu-strip --remove-comment" against 
the working file it creates a file that causes stap to fail.

Now I need to figure out if the debuginfo file is damaged by eu-strip, 
or it is a bug in elfutils relating to reading the striped file.



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