On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 2:06 PM David Cantrell <dcantr...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 09:30:18PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >On Do, 28.10.21 12:10, David Cantrell (dcantr...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > >> Thanks for revising the change proposal and filling in more details. > >> After reading through it, I have some questions: > >> > >> 1) The proposal notes that users tend to combine built packages from > >> different distributions. Even in the current environment, do we care > >> about those use cases without also getting a reproducer for Fedora? > > > >I'd see it this way: ultimately, if this gets adopted by multiple > >distros this annotation will helps us separating out the reports by > >distro, and then ignore everything but fedora. i.e. if someone deploys > >a debian or ubuntu container on a fedora host this should be something > >we shouldn't be bothered with supporting. But right now a coredump > >generated that way won't tell us much about the situation. But once > >this spec is adopted this becomes easy: if we get a report we'll > >immediately see that the code that aborted was actually from a > >different distro, and we can point the reporter to that and tell them > >politely to ask the other distro for help, or alternatively invest the > >time and reproduce the issue with the binary provided by fedora > >instead. > > > >So, having this info around us allows us to be more efficient with > >"not caring" for non-fedora issues. > > > >> For me, I feel that in a situation like that where a user has > >> submitted a bug report that implies using a binary from some other > >> distribution will lead me to ask "ok, but does this happen with the > >> packages provided in Fedora? If so, how can I reproduce the problem > >> locally?" So while these scenarios are described in the proposal, are > >> they something that Fedora is trying to support? > > > >Well, I don't think Fedora has to care about crashes in other distro's > >binaries. we have more than enough to look after anyway. But I do think > >we should make it easier to detect this situation and more easily > >provide helpful pointers how to find someone else who might be > >interested or what to do to make fedora interested. > > > >> 3) The proposal notes making crash reporting more user-readable. NVRs > >> instead of Build-IDs, for instance. Why can't systemd ask debuginfod > >> for that information for reporting? Why does this need to be embedded > >> in the ELF objects? If it's a value-add, then it could happen if > >> debuginfod is set up and just have it fall back on the current > >> reporting mechanism. > > > >We want to be able to do things generically in an offline fashion in > >systemd-coredump. I.e. we run the coredump analyzer in a tight > >sandbox, and we want quick answers without relying on the network. > > > >The goal of systemd-coredump is to make a coredump something that is > >primarily a relatively cheapish log event, and were we do analysis as > >much as possible locally, automatically, securely, in privacy and > >quickly. If we'd always talk to the network we'd have to open our > >sandbox quite a bit, we'd be dependent on external services, we'd leak > >some data to the outside, we'd be unreliable and slower — and all that > >even though we are interested in only a single string of data > >ultimately. > > > >(I think debuginfod is excellent, but I think it would probably be a > >consumer of this spec, not a replacement. for example, consider that > >the spec has a suggested field 'debugInfoUrl' already, which would > >inform debugging tools about the debuginfod servers to talk to to > >acquire extended debug info data) > > I was thinking more about this proposal over the past weekend and > where I keep ending up is that this is really optimizing for a small > use case by touching ELF metadata all over the system. And that > strikes me as pretty invasive, so is it worth the tradeoffs and risks > and such? > > Debugging is a pain, and anything to make that easier is better. It > has been stated multiple times that the information needs to be in the > ELF header because containers and images may lack an RPM database. > Fair, but what about the users that both want a container and image > without the RPM database and systemd-coredump? They still have all of > their ELF files with this information that they removed in other ways. > Do we provide those users with a script to strip .gnu.notes from > everything or is that even a use case of concern? > > Efforts to get the system very small for container and image use has > been a goal for a while. And sure we're not talking about a lot of > data, but that's now. The size of everything only grows, so is that > something to consider with the implementation of this feature? > > Another thing I thought about were reproducible builds. Does this > impact reproducible builds and if so, how do we handle that? > > I would feel more comfortable with this proposal if the data for > systemd-coredump was not part of the ELF metadata. Or if it > absolutely must be part of the ELF metadata, users should know how it > can be removed. I would also vote for a format other than JSON, but > that's just me.
Last cycle, I brought up the problem that it being part of the ELF data destroys a lot of the value of the RPMCoW change[1] that is also in development for this release. I'm disappointed that the Change authors didn't care to resolve that issue for this iteration. [1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4Z652ASFD4ZYF3HUWO2KPLVSZDGUDFJH/ -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
