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Re: pmcd dumping core - multiple issues

To: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: pmcd dumping core - multiple issues
From: fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 07:49:06 -0400
Cc: PCP Mailing List <pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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In-reply-to: <51F44856.3090308@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Ken McDonell's message of "Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:23:18 +1000")
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kenj wrote:

> [...]  And finally we've lost the procedure call traceback ... the
> relevant code is guarded by #if HAVE_TRACE_BACK_STACK but NOTHING
> appears to define HAVE_TRACE_BACK_STACK under any circumstances
> ... can anyone explain what happened here?

Not sure; but please note that that on Fedora/RHEL OS's, it's better
to let the OS catch crashes with systemwide tools like ABRT, that
manage backtracing, core-dump handling, bug reporting.  Letting the
application attempt its own backtracing can hide or corrupt these
crashes.

- FChE

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