[Bug 306835] Re: vmware-guestd crashing

[Adar Dembo]

Core dumps aren't going to work because I think our core dumping code is
busted (see the definition of the Panic_Panic if you're curious).

Travis or Martin: could one of you reproduce this crash within gdb and
use symbols to get a more meaningful backtrace? I'm not sure if Ubuntu's
vmware-guestd binary is stripped; if it is, you may you need to rebuild
vmware-guestd to get a build with embedded symbols. Assuming you have an
unstripped vmware-guestd binary, it should just be a matter of 1)
running 'gdb vmware-guestd', 2) setting up a breakpoint somewhere in
Panic(), 3) 'run', 4) when gdb hits the breakpoint, 'bt' to get the full
backtrace. It would be nice to also navigate up the stack to the caller
of the Str_ function that panicked and see exactly what line that took
place on, and why.

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