From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:22:44 -0400
Subject: testsuite: get stacktrace if test drops core
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On Tue, Mar 16 2010 at  4:44pm -0400,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Requires lvm be built with debugging (-g).
> Also requires ulimit -c be non-zero (to drop core file).
> 
> diff --git a/test/test-utils.sh b/test/test-utils.sh
> index 6606c56..06b9636 100644
> --- a/test/test-utils.sh
> +++ b/test/test-utils.sh
> @@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ STACKTRACE() {
>  		echo "$i ${FUNC}() called from ${BASH_SOURCE[$i]}:${BASH_LINENO[$i]}"
>  		i=$(($i + 1));
>  	done
> +
> +	# Attempt to get a stacktrace if a core file exists
> +	# and the lvm binary was built with debugging
> +	TEST_LVM_BINARY=$(dirname $(which lvm))/../../tools/lvm
> +	TEST_LVM_CORE=`ls core* | head -1`
> +	GDB_BINARY=`which gdb`
> +	READELF_BINARY=`which readelf`
> +	if [ -n "$TEST_LVM_CORE" -a -n "$GDB_BINARY" -a -n "$READELF_BINARY" ]; then
> +		if $READELF_BINARY -S $TEST_LVM_BINARY 2>&1 | grep -q .debug_info; then
> +			echo bt > gdb_commands.txt
> +			echo l >> gdb_commands.txt
> +			echo quit >> gdb_commands.txt
> +			$GDB_BINARY -batch -c $TEST_LVM_CORE -x gdb_commands.txt $TEST_LVM_BINARY
> +		fi
> +	fi
>  }
>  
>  init_udev_transaction() {

FYI, I verified that this change is compatible as far back as RHEL4.3.

Both gdb and readelf are commandline and runtime compatible (relative to
how they are used above).

Mike