Questions tagged [debugging]
is a process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program, thus making it behave as expected
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Debug log for WiFi processing
I am trying to integrate WPA2 into open network in AP side, and I managed through quite good so far, I am now able to encrypt and decrypt live traffic.
However, stations are ignoring my messages, ...
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Change format of syscall event trace output to ftrace
I enabled ftrace event tracing for sys_enter_openat syscall. The respective output format given at events/syscalls/sys_enter_openat/format is
print fmt: "dfd: 0x%08lx, filename: 0x%08lx, flags: 0x%...
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how to (externally) continue running an app being debugged? is it possible at all?
I am running an app thru nemiver that runs gdb and finally the app.
I need to automatically (in a delayed loop) read the files generated by that app, but for that I need to stop the app to prevent it ...
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VirtualBox Error : Kernel Driver not installed(rc=-1908)
I am currently using Ubuntu 18.04 and VirtualBox GUI Version 5.2.18 and I faced the following bug:
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either ...
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Is it possible to view the bytes I sent over a network connection?
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04. I'm debugging an application that communicates with a remote server and I'd like to be able to directly view the bytes sent from my machine (rather than relying on debug output). ...
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Who is eating data? Xargs?
I am trying to parse a recursive directory of PHP files using the built in PHP linter, which works like this:
$ php -l good.php
No syntax errors detected in good.php
$ php -l bad.php
PHP Parse error:...
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Debugging boot performance issues in grub / before kernel logging starts
My PC takes a long time booting. I have reason to believe it is caused by delays after grub, but before kernel logging starts (booting takes 30 seconds, but dmesg messages have time stamps between 0....
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Debugging android kernel goldifish emulator under Mac OS Mojave
I need to debug android kernel goldfish under MacOS Mojave.
So i cloned android-goldfish-3.18 and android-aosp-9.0.0_r22.
I built aosp under macos while the kernel under debian.
Obviously I built ...
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Can I replace bzImage and ko files in installed modules separately?
I'm currently trying to debug a kernel module. After installing the kernel, I'm trying to change the kernel a little and a single module a little and see how things work.
When I changed the kernel ...
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Qemu-user : get memory maps while debugging remotely
I am trying to get the memory map of a process I am debugging remotely (peda pull request link), the process is ran with qemu-user, for example:
qemu-arm -L /usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ -g 1234 ./ch47
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How to disable kernel system request debugging?
I need to disable the kernel system
request debugging on an Ubuntu computer, but have not been able to find a way of how to do this.
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How can I configure a running kernel to output dmesg info directly to the tty, without involving any userspace programs?
There are a large variety of questions floating around the 'net from people who want to watch the output of dmesg in real time. All the suggestions and answers involve using dmesg -w, tail, journalctl ...
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functions folder in trace_stat folder of ftrace
I am learning ftrace, I read from the following link that I can enable function profiling using the 'function_profile_enabled' file.
mount -t tracefs nodev /sys/kernel/tracing
cd /sys/kernel/tracing
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Define bash function which does not show up in xtrace (set -x)
In a bash script I have a log() function that is used in several places, as well as a logs() function that diverts lots of line to log(). When I run parts of the script with set -x, obviously all ...
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Any way to have a “verbose mode” or “debug mode” with sed?
Is there a way to make gnu sed be verbose about what is run and what is done ?
I'd like to have something like a "debug mode" so that I can see - for each line of input - the content of the hold space ...
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No desktop up to 15 seconds after login
I was worried that my computer could be compromised and my login session is being hijacked by some malicious hook.
In .xsession executed by xdm, I capture a pstree snapshot a file to debug this ...
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Is there an Ansible command to check all essential logs of a web server environment?
I use Debian stable and Apache 2.4.
In the past I wrote a script with 3 different commands to read all logs of my webserver. Like:
#!/bin/bash
nginx -t && echo;echo;echo
tail /var/log/...
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How to dump stack trace for all processes in Linux?
I am trying to track down a bug on an Android device that involves IPC between several native processes. At a given point in time I would like to dump native stack traces for all threads in some or ...
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Make systemd debug shell usable again
Specifying systemd.debug-shell=1 as kernel parameter kind of works: I can switch via Alt+F9 to a shell when systemd boot hangs.
But this shell is quite impossible because an animated
[ *** ] A ...
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set -eux instead set -x in Bash profile for global debugging [closed]
When I work with Bash I love to do so with prominent debug mode, so each time I get a new machine I add to the end of ~/.profile the code set -x.
I consider adding eu as well, so to have set -eux as ...
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cruft-ng and docker overlayfs
I have been trying out cruft-ng -
The man-page says
cruft-ng - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files)
and
cruft-ng is a program that goes over the Debian packaging ...
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debugging a statement in a Makefile on OpenBSD
It is not clear to me, where the error comes from, the Makefile code follows:
platform_id = $$( uname -s )
platform = $$( \
case $(platform_id) in \
Linux | FreeBSD | OpenBSD | NetBSD ) ...
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lldb hangs when opening a dump
lldb-3.9 hangs when I try to open a dump from a dotnet application. The process gets completely stuck, without consuming CPU.
$ gdb -v
GNU gdb (Ubuntu 8.1-0ubuntu3) 8.1.0.20180409-git
$ lldb-3.9 -v
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CIFS debugging - not enough information
I am using RedHat RHEL 6. The goal is to identify whether an application running on the local server is setting 'HIDDEN' file attribute on the remote CIFS share.
I have first enabled the logging in ...
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Using `ipdb` to debug Python scripts run as Slurm jobs
I sometimes use import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace() in order to debug Python code with iPython (as described here: Step-by-step debugging with IPython). I also sometimes submit jobs to a computing cluster ...
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Debian: Find binary and debug files by build-id
Assuming I have a core dump from a Debian system, where I know the build-ids of the libraries used in the dump, but don't know the exact versions, is there a way to find those files?
For example, the ...
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Why some libraries and other parts get repeated in the linux virtual memory with gdb?
This is the result of looking at virtual memory of a process in gdb; I have some questions regarding this:
Why are some parts of the virtual memory are repeated? For example, our program (stack6) and ...
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bash & using a variable to decide when to use 'set'? [closed]
Looking to ascertain why when I do something like;
[ ${debug:=0} -gt 0 ] && set -x || set +x
regardless of the conditional set -x is enabled. The issue is that I am unable to use ${debug} to ...
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List/find the programm(s) that has accessed (in the past! No fuser!) a specific given file (IOW: from a specific file 2 an unknown tool)
I have a javascript file that is used on just one occasion -> if the home folder is deleted and i login the next time.
I want to find the mechanism/tool/programm/application which has accessed/used (...
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lldb hangs on Alpine Linux
I'm trying to run lldb on Alpine Linux V3.8, but when trying to debug any program, it hangs.
I'm using lldb 5.0.1-r0 from the edge/testing repository, which is the only version available currently in ...
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How to figure out why executable crashes (I don't have the source code) [duplicate]
I'm trying to install PowerPanel Business Edition on Apple OS X.13. The server starts and exits (quits) - no log file, no error message. It works fine on my other OS Apple machines but on this High ...
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How to install debug symbols for corosync package on CentOS?
I got a crash in corosync which I would like to view in gdb. However, currently the core dump shows me only this much info
Debug logs for core.1385 (Generated on Jul 26 10:17 BST)
[Thread debugging ...
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Install a Linux kernel with debug symbols and without optimizations
My system is Ubuntu 18.04. How do I install a Linux kernel with debug symbols and without optimizations? I would like to trace it with SystemTap.
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function's calling context in zsh: equivalent of bash `caller`
In bash, I can write:
caller 0
and receive the caller context's:
Line number
Function
Script name
This is extremely useful for debugging. Given:
yelp () { caller 0; }
I can then write yelp to ...
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pstack outputs nothing. What does it mean?
Most of the time, pstack prints the stack nicely. Once in a while, I run pstack 1234 against a process 1234, and it outputs NOTHING.
I can run it again, and again it outputs nothing. Once it goes ...
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Defining a state of a failed SD cards by kernel tracing?
I'm having a series of failing/sometimes failing SD cards. They either give one of the following dmesg outputs:
The completely dead ones (don't list at /dev/mmcblk0):
[ +0,000010] mmc0: error -110 ...
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ACPI BIOS Error / AE_NOT_FOUND
I'm getting these error messages every single time I reboot my desktop (and a couple of more I don't know how to retain when it's shutting down, but those are not relevant to this question so far):
[...
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sh is evaluating bash code from parent shell, and breaking down
I have this code in a bash script:
r2g(){
echo "executable is: $0" # "/bin/bash"
(
set -e;
r2g_internal "$@" \
2> >( while read line; do echo "r2g error: $line"; done ...
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Process memory usage right before executing of its first instruction
How can I get the size of a process right before its execution without executing the program with any particular input?
I was thinking maybe a debugger can do so. I have IDA pro if that helps.
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Debug possible SSL/TLS problem?
I'm running into a couple networking issues which I suspect could be related to SSL/TLS, but I'm not sure how to go about confirming that that's the case.
The main problem I'm having is I'm unable to ...
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Crashkernel not starting after crash
I am trying to start a crash kernel using Linux's Kernel Crash Dump. Both of the host and crash kernel are compiled linux-4.13.16 kernel. Unfortunately, the crash kernel fails to start after the crash ...
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How to debug a completely stuck kernel?
Running kernel 4.15 here from F27. Since I moved a week ago from 4.13 to 4.15, a highly threaded app I have been developing started to hang the kernel. Not always, but most of the times. I have an i7 ...
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LLDB Failed to connect port.Under Vmware, CentOS, Android Studio
I trying to debug jni code in android studio which run under VM Workstartion + CentOS 7 the error message is:
Failed to connect port
com.jetbrains.cidr.execution.debugger.backend.lldb....
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Is there a way in which we can notify the tracer (parent process) when the tracee (child process) executes a branch instruction?
As we know, the ptrace system call is one of the most powerful system calls in unix-like systems. All debugging software use ptrace for monitoring and manipulating another process, i.e. tracee. Using ...
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set -x: tab completion results in messy output when working in debug mode
I understand that set -x gets a Bash user into debug mode and I feel that working full time in debug mode will help me handle possible problems better in Bash.
I experience a problem when working ...
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Why does a UDP client send 1Gbit speed to 100Mbit server?
I've just found out that in a simple UDP client/server application I wrote on Linux userspace, the UDP client (1 Gbit Ethernet interface) sends the data with 1 Gbit speed to a UDP server which has ...
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Toggle bash script between run commands and print commands
I found a script which used this "trick" to achieve a toggle between running and printing commands:
echo_prefix="echo"
rm_cmd="rm file1 file2"
$echo_prefix $rm_cmd
This allows the user to dry run ...
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how to selectively silence rsync
When rsyncing a folder with a million files,
a million lines are output to stduot/stderr, containing
the file names.
(I'm using Travis CI, and this trips it up because their log files can be max 4MB)...
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How to debug time dependent issue
I think one of my cronjobs failed when it ran at 00:00:00 2018-01-01. How can I debug that? Changing the system clock is clearly the wrong way to go, since it would disrupt the whole system and also ...
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Use of __rb_rotate_left()
I have a kernel crash on this function: __rb_rotate_left().
Can someone explain what this function is meant for in simple terms?
PC is at __rb_rotate_left+0x24/0x78
LR is at rb_insert_color+0x108/...
