Question

I have application (server) written in C++ that are crashing around few hours, looks random probably.

Worst part is i trying to debug any of core file using gdb and i see that result:

gdb --core=core.668 --symbols=selectserver
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Core was generated by `./selectserver'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
[New process 672]
[New process 671]
[New process 670]
[New process 669]
[New process 668]
#0  0xb7866896 in ?? ()
(gdb) info threads
  5 process 668  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  4 process 669  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  3 process 670  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  2 process 671  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
* 1 process 672  0xb7866896 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7866896 in ?? ()
#1  0x082da4b0 in ?? ()
#2  0xb79e4252 in ?? ()
#3  0xa2ba9014 in ?? ()
#4  0x0825e14c in ?? ()
#5  0x082da4b0 in ?? ()
#6  0xb56175e8 in ?? ()
#7  0x00000080 in ?? ()
#8  0xb5fe723f in ?? ()
#9  0xa2ba9014 in ?? ()
#10 0xa2ba9008 in ?? ()
#11 0xb7a32ff4 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) thread 2
[Switching to thread 2 (process 671)]#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7889486 in ?? ()
#2  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) thread 3
[Switching to thread 3 (process 670)]#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7889486 in ?? ()
#2  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) thread 4
[Switching to thread 4 (process 669)]#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7889486 in ?? ()
#2  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) thread 5
[Switching to thread 5 (process 668)]#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb78b7de1 in ?? ()
#2  0x00000032 in ?? ()
#3  0xbf849ae8 in ?? ()
#4  0xbf8499e8 in ?? ()
#5  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) quit

I dont know what is going on, why addresses on stack excluding __kernel_vsyscall are so wired not maps to symbol.

What i need to do to find the problem, debug memory dump of that problem.

Thanks for help!

Answer 1

Starting gdb --core=core.668 selectserver fixed problem.