[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#568517: Bug#568517: schroot: segfaults at start

[Roger Leigh]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 11:54:51AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> 
> > Thanks.  If you could possibly try to run in gdb, that would be
> > even better.  You'll need to install gdb, schroot-dbg and also
> > libc6-dbg and libstdc++6-4.4-dbg.  You can then (as root) run
> > 'gdb /usr/bin/schroot' and in gdb run 'run <schroot-options>',
> > wait until the segfault and then type 'backtrace'.  The
> > backtrace is what I need, and this should pinpoint the exact
> > point of the failure.
> 
> The backtrace reports 'No stack', and before that, gdb says 'no debugging
> symbols found'.  The full gdb log is below.  All of schroot-dbg, libc6-dbg,
> and libstdc++6-4.4-dbg are installed.

Thanks for that.  It looks like a child process, probably one of the
setup scripts, was what failed with the fault.  Could you please try
repeating the gdb backtrace, but add 'catch throw' before you run.
This should catch the exception which is thrown on child failure.


Thanks,
Roger

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