Libguestfs - Oct 2014 - Useful tip: Run guestfsd under gdb and print stack trace on exit

Useful for tracking down segfaults in the daemon.  This is not
upstreamable right now.

Example usage:

$ ./run guestfish -v -x -a /dev/null run : debug segv ""

[...]

libguestfs: trace: launch = 0
libguestfs: trace: debug "segv" ""
guestfsd: main_loop: new request, len 0x34

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
debug_segv (subcmd=0x4687050 "segv", argc=0, argv=0x4687070) at
debug.c:223
223\tdebug.c: No such file or directory.
#0  debug_segv (subcmd=0x4687050 "segv", argc=0, argv=0x4687070) at
debug.c:223
#1  0x000000000042e083 in debug_stub (xdr_in=<optimized out>) at
stubs.c:2557
#2  0x0000000000448d5d in dispatch_incoming_message (xdr_in=0x7fffffffe8d0) at
stubs.c:15819
#3  0x0000000000428a91 in main_loop (_sock=73953360, _sock at entry=3) at
proto.c:192
#4  0x000000000040564d in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized
out>) at guestfsd.c:344
Rebooting.


Rich.

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>From 9bd0fe0e2790e0136684245dc6a97f6ec4e24502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 14:15:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] appliance: Run guestfsd under gdb and print stack trace on
 exit.

---
 appliance/init           | 10 ++--------
 appliance/packagelist.in |  1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/appliance/init b/appliance/init
index 6d62338..52da01f 100755
--- a/appliance/init
+++ b/appliance/init
@@ -132,14 +132,8 @@ if ! grep -sq guestfs_rescue=1 /proc/cmdline; then
   fi
 
   # Run guestfsd, under valgrind if asked.
-  $vg guestfsd
-  if [ $? -eq 119 ]; then
-      echo "DAEMON VALGRIND FAILED"
-      # Sleep so valgrind messages are seen by the host.  Note this
-      # only happens in non-production builds
-      # (--enable-valgrind-daemon) + on an error path.
-      sleep 10
-  fi
+  gdb -batch -ex "run" -ex "bt" guestfsd
+  sleep 10
 else
   # Run virt-rescue shell.
 
diff --git a/appliance/packagelist.in b/appliance/packagelist.in
index 276b4c2..a1ecada 100644
--- a/appliance/packagelist.in
+++ b/appliance/packagelist.in
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ e2fsprogs
 file
 findutils
 gawk
+gdb
 gdisk
 grep
 gzip
-- 
2.0.4