[OpenAFS] Re: 1.6.2 buserver + butc

[Eric Sturdivant]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Andrew Deason wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:22:29 -0400
> Eric Sturdivant <sturdiva@umd.edu> wrote:
>
>> Ok, I've got core+tcpdump files from the 3 buserver processes, as well
>> as one of the butc processes. Anything in particular you are
>> interested in seeing?
>
> What I was after is the stack trace of all of the LWPs in the buserver
> process. You cannot get at those easily, since LWP is a threading system
> that is not understood by the debugger (dbx or gdb). That's kinda why I
> was treating the 'core file' option as something where you give the core
> file to a developer. Getting that information by providing instructions
> to you makes this a bit more difficult... but is probably doable. I've
> only done that a couple of times before, and it involved hex editing the
> core file; it may be a bit easier with Solaris dbx, but I'll need a
> little time to look into it.
>
> If someone else has information on that handy or something, go ahead :)
>
>

Ah, gotcha. I was assuming the core file would contain a copy of the 
KeyFile and shouldn't be passed around, is this not the case?

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Eric Sturdivant
University of Maryland
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