[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

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This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.11-0ubuntu75

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apport (2.20.11-0ubuntu75) jammy; urgency=medium

  * bin/apport-retrace: For releases which gdb doesn't search in the
debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink create a symlink from the
host's .dwz to the machine specific one to work around the issue.
(LP: #1818918)

 -- Brian Murray   Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:17:57 -0800

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Fix Released

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

Ah, good to know!  No problem at all, Brian!  Cheers :-)

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

@Sergio - Given the way the retracers are currently setup we are using
the version of gdb for the release for the crash we are retracing,
subsequently we'd need to SRU this to every release. Given that I've
already worked around this specific issue in apport backporting the fix
seems unnecessary.

I'm sorry I missed the fact that this had been fixed in hirsute!

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

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gdb (10.1-1.3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Convert to debhelper v10, not using the sequencer. Addresses: #973355.
  * Search for DWZ files in debug-file-directories as well, patch taken
from the trunk.
  * Only build with debuginfod on linux targets.

 -- Matthias Klose   Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:42:31 +0100

** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

Ah, I see that is has indeed been backport by Debian, and is already in
hirsute: debian/patches/2bf3b79d05bf85e41cbdcb020bd1cc424f59dd9a.diff is
the patch.  @Brian, would you like me to backport the patch to another
release?

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

@Brian, Ops, sorry.  I forgot about this bug, and then I kind of assumed
that it had already been backported on Debian.  This is just for
hirsute, right?  I can backport it now, give me just a second.

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

@Sergio - Is this still something you are planning on backporting?

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

FWIW, the fix has just been pushed upstream:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-
gdb.git;a=commit;h=2bf3b79d05bf85e41cbdcb020bd1cc424f59dd9a

If no one else beats me to it, I can try to backport it this weekend.

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Tiago Stürmer Daitx]

@sergiodj many thanks for the help here

It was a dwz man page somewhere that made me think we might be misusing
.gnu_debugaltlink somehow (didn't even know about dh_dwz), but on a
quick search I couldn't understand how the path was supposed to look
like so I could test that idea with my replace-altlink-section-hack.

And if GDB can support looking for .dwz on the debug-file-drectory even
with hardcoded paths, all the better.

Many, many thanks for taking the time to look at this and come up with
these 2 solutions. We really appreciate it.

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

@tdaitx asked me to take a look at this problem, and here is what I
found.

1) As he said above, the problem is that Debian/Ubuntu generate
.gnu_debugaltlink sections containing full pathnames to the DWZ alt
debug files.  IMO, we should be using dwz's "--relative" option when
invoking it via dh_dwz.  I will send a merge request on Salsa and
propose that we adopt this flag as a distro.

2) While we could use the workaround described in the last comment, I
think it is better if GDB is adjusted to cope with this scenario (i.e.,
having a full pathname on .gnu_debugaltlink, but having the actual DWZ
file in another directory that is also provided as the debug-file-
directory to GDB).  I went ahead and submitted a patch to GDB to do just
that:

  https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-November/173276.html

I think searching for the DWZ files using the debug-file-directory
provided by the user is a sensible approach, and is also something that
other projects (namely elfutils) seem to do.

All in all, as I said in (1), I think the best long-term solution is to
adjust dh_dwz to put relative pathnames in the .gnu_debugaltlink.
Arguably, we could also create a symlink in /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/
and make it point to the corresponding file inside /usr/lib/debug/.dwz/,
but that is an orthogonal issue and would not help with this specific
bug.

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Tiago Stürmer Daitx]

So the issue is: if there is a .gnu_debugaltlink GDB will try to load
that file and throw an error if it can't. That path is absolute and GDB
does _not_ look for that path/file anywhere else, not even inside
'debug-file-directory'.

GDB seems to only look at section .gnu_debugaltlink in debug/.build-
id/nn/nn.debug, it does not seem to use that section from the binary
at all.

Due to that, another workaround is to modify that section to point to
the 'right' place:

1) use objcopy to dump .gnu_debugaltlink from debug/.build-id/nn/nn.debug 
into a file
2) use sed to modify the path in the dump file
3) use objcopy to update .gnu_debugaltlink section in 
debug/.build-id/nn/nn.debug

As in:
$ objcopy --dump-section .gnu_debugaltlink=altlink 
/tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/76/e9f820204912084fd156c593b2c92f1a4b51f1.debug
$ sed -i 's:^:/tmp/dbgsym:' altlink
$ objcopy --update-section .gnu_debugaltlink=altlink 
/tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/76/e9f820204912084fd156c593b2c92f1a4b51f1.debug

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Tiago Stürmer Daitx]

I was able to reproduce what Brian is reporting here.

If the -dbgsym for the package is installed, gdb works and reports that it is 
reading from the /tmp/dbgsym path. When -dbgsym package is not installed then 
it fails with the 
'could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for ...' message

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

This is still an issue with hirsute afaict.

(hirsute-amd64)root@impulse:/tmp# gdb --ex 'set debug-file-directory 
/tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug:/usr/lib/debug' --ex 'file /bin/cat' --ex 'cor
e-file /tmp/cat.core'
GNU gdb (Ubuntu 10.1-0ubuntu1) 10.1
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
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For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word".
Reading symbols from /bin/cat...
Reading symbols from 
/tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/bc/06d3bee37b8c7e67b31cb2689cb351102ae73b.debug...
could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for 
/tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/bc/06d3bee37b8c7e67b31cb2689cb351102ae73b.debug
(No debugging symbols found in 
/tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/bc/06d3bee37b8c7e67b31cb2689cb351102ae73b.debug)
[New LWP 1146067]
Core was generated by `/bin/cat'.
Program terminated with signal SIGTSTP, Stopped (user).
#0  0x77edca92 in read () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Tiago Stürmer Daitx]

I tried the testcase from comment #12 in Focal and Hirsute and it worked
just fine:

$ gdb --ex 'set debug-file-directory /tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug:/usr/lib/debug' 
--ex 'file /bin/cat' --ex 'core-file /tmp/cat.core'
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word".
Reading symbols from /bin/cat...
Reading symbols from 
/tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/b3/57ed53c8c9cb1a312f83b28982304effae0135.debug...
[New LWP 2094475]
Core was generated by `/bin/cat'.
Program terminated with signal SIGTSTP, Stopped (user).
#0  0x77eb6142 in __GI___libc_read (fd=fd@entry=0, 
buf=buf@entry=0x77faa000, nbytes=nbytes@entry=131072) at 
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/read.c:26

# hirsute
$ gdb --ex 'set debug-file-directory /tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug:/usr/lib/debug' 
--ex 'file /bin/cat' --ex 'core-file /tmp/cat.core'
Reading symbols from /bin/cat...
Reading symbols from 
/tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fb/a7cee6aca864b8f79dfaa8a267855333b445c1.debug...
[New LWP 14651]
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/cat'.
Program terminated with signal SIGTSTP, Stopped (user).
#0  0x77edccb2 in __GI___libc_read (fd=fd@entry=0, 
buf=buf@entry=0x7791e000, nbytes=nbytes@entry=131072) at 
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/read.c:26
26  ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/read.c: No such file or directory.


If the dbgsym is installed and I use (with intentional typo):
set debug-file-directory /tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debugnot:/usr/lib/debug
it then loads symbols correctly from /usr/lib/debug


Note, this was tested under Focal (host) and Hirsute (lxd container).

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

Ah, thanks for pointing that out but there is still an issue with the
test case in comment #12 as the .gnu_debugaltlink file is still not
loaded.

Reading symbols from /bin/cat...
Reading symbols from 
/tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fb/a7cee6aca864b8f79dfaa8a267855333b445c1.debug...
could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for 
/tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fb/a7cee6aca864b8f79dfaa8a267855333b445c1.debug
(No debugging symbols found in 
/tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fb/a7cee6aca864b8f79dfaa8a267855333b445c1.debug)
[New LWP 302900]
Core was generated by `/bin/cat'.
Program terminated with signal SIGTSTP, Stopped (user).

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Tiago Stürmer Daitx]

> 7) Execute "gdb --ex 'file /bin/cat' --ex 'core-file /tmp/cat.core'
--ex 'set debug-file-directory /tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug'"

Try setting the debug-file-directory first, it should work.
gdb --ex 'set debug-file-directory /tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug:/usr/lib/debug' 
--ex 'file /bin/cat' --ex 'core-file /tmp/cat.core'

Still, this does not seem to invalidate the original bug report or the
one in comment #4, as they are setting 'file' and 'core' last. It is
just that comment #12 does not seem to indicate a valid reproducer.

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

This is also true with gdb 10.1 from hirsute-proposed.

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

I've come up with a simpler test case on an Ubuntu 20.10 system which
follows:

1) Execute 'gdb --args cat'
2) in gdb type 'run'
3) press Ctrl-Z
4) in gdb type 'generate-core-file /tmp/cat.core'
5) download the dbgsym for coreutils
6) Extract them 'dbg-deb -x coreutils-dbgsym_8.32-3ubuntu1_amd64.ddeb 
/tmp/dbgsym'
7) Execute "gdb --ex 'file /bin/cat' --ex 'core-file /tmp/cat.core' --ex 'set 
debug-file-directory /tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug'"

In gdb you'll see the following error message:

Reading symbols from /bin/cat...
(No debugging symbols found in /bin/cat)

Running "objdump -g /bin/cat" we can see the location for the separate
debug info:

Contents of the .gnu_debugaltlink section (loaded from /bin/cat):

  Separate debug info file: /usr/lib/debug/.dwz/x86_64-linux-gnu/coreutils.debug
  Build-ID (0x14 bytes):
 cb 5b e4 8a 6d b2 52 6e 9c 80 8d 64 ec 4b 1f b7 7f 0c ca 9e

Contents of the .gnu_debuglink section (loaded from /bin/cat):

  Separate debug info file: a7cee6aca864b8f79dfaa8a267855333b445c1.debug
  CRC value: 0x5e28a31d

The separate debug info file exists in /tmp/dbgsym:

[ 11:07AM 10857 ]  [ bdmurray@impulse:/tmp/dbgsym ]
 $ find . -name a7cee\*.debug
./usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fb/a7cee6aca864b8f79dfaa8a267855333b445c1.debug

However despite setting debug-file-directory an strace reveals that
/tmp/dbgsym is not searched:

 $ grep a7cee /tmp/gdb-bin-cat.trace
access("/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fb/a7cee6aca864b8f79dfaa8a267855333b445c1.debug",
 F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/bin/a7cee6aca864b8f79dfaa8a267855333b445c1.debug", 
O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/bin/.debug/a7cee6aca864b8f79dfaa8a267855333b445c1.debug", 
O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, 
"/usr/lib/debug//bin/a7cee6aca864b8f79dfaa8a267855333b445c1.debug", 
O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

Oh and using either of '/tmp/dbgsym' or /tmp/dbgsym/usr/lib/debug' for
the debug-file-directory works.

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

Here's the full strace for the /bin/cat test case.

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

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** Changed in: apport
   Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

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  gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

I've managed to workaround this in apport by creating a symlink from the
host system's /usr/share/debug/.dwz to the gdb sandbox's
/usr/share/debug/.dwz folder. That being said I still think there is an
issue with gdb not checking the debug-file-directory for the "Separate
debug info file" in the .gnu_debugaltlink section.

** Also affects: apport (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: apport
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Changed in: apport
   Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: apport
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: apport
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray)

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

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** Tags added: fr-823

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu)
   Status: Expired => New

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

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[Expired for gdb (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
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** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Expired

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

I've discovered that I can workaround this issue by modifying the
argument passed to the 'set debug-file-directory' option of gdb e.g. by
using the following:

'set debug-file-directory /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 19.10/amd64
/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/.dwz/'

I no longer see the error message regarding "could not find
'.gnu_debugaltlink' file for...'. Originally the 'set debug-file-
directory' argument was:

'set debug-file-directory /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 19.10/amd64
/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/'

Additionally its worth noting that if I use both paths e.g.:

'set debug-file-directory /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 19.10/amd64
/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/.dwz/:/srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/'

I receive the error message again.

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Matthias Klose]

looking up the .gnu_debugaltlink in a normal debug session works
perfectly fine.  Please can you show this behavior without any sandbox,
or try to diagnose why it doesn't work in this sandbox?  I am not
familiar with this sandbox environment.


** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu)
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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

I recently started seeing issues with some other applications too e.g.:

Reading symbols from /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox//usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-session-worker...
Reading symbols from /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/d8/4d9e76a9073d1195af86ff6620382437e41977.debug...
could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/d8/4d9e76a9073d1195af86ff6620382437e41977.debug
(No debugging symbols found in /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/d8/4d9e76a9073d1195af86ff6620382437e41977.debug)
...
Reading symbols from /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox//usr/bin/gnome-shell...
Reading symbols from /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/2c/28a1bf7a132275c4fd2f9f44011c043d4424e5.debug...
could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/2c/28a1bf7a132275c4fd2f9f44011c043d4424e5.debug
(No debugging symbols found in /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/2c/28a1bf7a132275c4fd2f9f44011c043d4424e5.debug)

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

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** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu)
   Status: Expired => New

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[Expired for gdb (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]

** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Expired

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

This test case doesn't involve snaps, notice the file switch to gdb:

--ex 'file "/srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 19.04/amd64/report-
sandbox//usr/bin/gnome-calculator"'

This is still an issue with the version of gdb from eoan, 8.3-0ubuntu1,
and eoan's gnome-calculator package.

Calling gdb command: '/srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2' 
'/srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/bin/gdb' 
--ex 'set debug-file-directory /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug' --ex 'set solib-absolute-prefix 
/srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 19.10/amd64/report-sandbox' --ex 
'add-auto-load-safe-path /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox' --ex 'set solib-search-path 
/srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu
 19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' --ex 'set data-directory 
/srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/share/gdb' 
--ex 'file "/srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox//usr/bin/gnome-calculator"' --ex 'core-file 
/tmp/apport_core_b_z3909f'
/srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/bin/gdb: 
warning: Couldn't determine a path for the index cache directory.
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Reading symbols from /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox//usr/bin/gnome-calculator...
Reading symbols from /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/42/410fc27971e3eb1d581449a1687495a876ab5b.debug...
could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/42/410fc27971e3eb1d581449a1687495a876ab5b.debug
(No debugging symbols found in /srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/42/410fc27971e3eb1d581449a1687495a876ab5b.debug)
[New LWP 14762]
[New LWP 14766]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/srv/vms/apport-sandbox-dir/Ubuntu 
19.10/amd64/report-sandbox/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/gnome-calculator'.

Attached you'll find the core file for gnome-calculator. Is there
anything more I can give you?

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Matthias Klose]

please can you can up with a test case not involving snaps?  Asking
because I can't.


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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

[Brian Murray]

This is still an issue with gdb version 8.2.90.20190311-0ubuntu1 in
disco.

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[Bug 1818918] Re: gdb doesn't search in debug-file-directory for .gnu_debugaltlink

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** Attachment added: "strace of gdb"
   
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