[OpenSIPS-Users] OpenSIPS crashing but gdb not recognising core dump symbols

[Kingsley Tart]

On Tue, 2021-10-26 at 11:16 +0300, Liviu Chircu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 26.10.2021 11:12, Kingsley Tart wrote:
> > root at ipx-a:/tmp# gdb ./ core.opensips.107.1635217462.23482
> 
> I think I figured out what's wrong... why are you using this "./" 
> construct?!  That argument MUST be the binary that produced the 
> corefile, which is typically /usr/sbin/opensips!  If you look below, gdb 
> even briefly complains about this:
> > ./: Is a directory.
> 
> Did you get this instruction from the website?  Let me know if there is 
> anything to correct on that side.
> 
> Hope this helps,

Aha!

Yes, I'm getting a full trace now, thanks.

I didn't notice the error in gdb's output as it got lost amongst the
other messages. I've never used gdb before so I thought all of this
output was normal.

The web site (
https://www.opensips.org/Documentation/TroubleShooting-Crash) mentioned
this:

gdb /usr/local/sbin/opensips core.6645

but on my system the binary is /usr/sbin/opensips. I've been juggling a
lot in my mind recently and I imagined that /usr/local/sbin/opensips
was just a directory containing the core file or something.

Anyway, I can now report the crashes with proper traces - 
https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/issues I presume.

Cheers,
Kingsley.