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Re: Reading dynamic symbols from Linux core files?


On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
> The problem usually was - at least in some Fedoras + RHELs - that vDSO has
> overgrown 4KB. ?The loadable segment remained in the first 4KB part but
> debugging symbols spanned more pages which led to bfd_from_remote_memory
> cutting off the debug symbols. ?Recent Fedora patch for it is:
> ? ? ? ?http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=gdb-6.6-bfd-vdso8k.patch;hb=master

So we're SOL?

BTW, thanks Jan and John for taking this upstream with a background
knowledge I can't match!

One thing to note is that we cannot entirely rule out some binaries
being corrupt. This problem has already crossed several "that's
impossible" boundaries. One of our avenues of investigation is an SD
card duplicator introducing some odd fs corruption, although rpm -Va
and other checksums tell us the files are good.

Also - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-March/164105.html



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