Re: [atomic-devel] How to handle crashes

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015, at 03:34 AM, Jakub Filak wrote:

The second idea is to put some core bits of ABRT directly to Atomic Host. My plan is to factor out ABRT's core_pattern helper (the thing we put to /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern; man 5 core) that could be installed on Atomic host and create an image shipping the rest of ABRT stack. The footprint of such a design would be barely remarkable, but implementing it would ensure availability of debugging information in all cases.

 

There was some work on having ABRT pick up crashes from systemd-coredump; is that still a work in progress?

 

Basically it would make sense to me for there to be an agent on the host to collect crashes; among other issues, an agent has to have visibility into which PID namespace/cgroup the core is coming from, and that's hard if it's already inside a container.