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RE: [Xen-devel] Catch crashing domains with GDB

To: "Simon Kagstrom" <simon.kagstrom@xxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Catch crashing domains with GDB
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:39:28 -0000
Cc: Kip Macy <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>
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> > "on_crash = preserve" should keep the domain hanging around -- I'd 
> > imagine you'd be able to get gdb to give you a backtrace from there.
> 
> Ah, I see. However, I tried adding that to the domain config, 
> and the crashed domain is preserved:
> 
>   [ska@cb mini-os]$ sudo xm list
>   Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
>   Domain-0                           0       64     1 r-----  1121.3
>   test                              56       32     1 --p-c-     0.1
> 
> and I can also attach the gdbserver to the domain (with gdbserver-xen
> localhost:9999 --attach 56), but when I try to attach to the 
> gdbserver with GDB I only get
> 
>   (gdb) target remote localhost:9999
>   Remote debugging using localhost:9999
>   Couldn't establish connection to remote target
>   Remote communication error: Connection reset by peer.
> 
> and the gdbserver then exits with
> 
>   Remote debugging from host 127.0.0.1
>   Child exited with status 0
>   GDBserver exiting
> 
> . Debugging works fine if I attach with the domain paused on 
> startup. I've tried both gdb 6.2.1 and Debian Sarge's 6.3 
> version and both exhibit the same behaviour.

This sounds like gdbserver getting confused about the crashed domain.
Perhaps Kip can suggest a fix...

Best,
Ian

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