[Gluster-infra] Core pattern change in centos regression machines

[Prasanna Kumar Kalever]

On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:16:06 AM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 09:04:04AM -0400, Prasanna Kumar Kalever wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As part of dumping back-trace of core files in console log of jenkins
> > we need executable name, finding executable name from the corefile is
> > not common across platfoms, hence lets make the executable name as
> > part of corefile name in all Centos jenkin slaves similar to netbsd
> > slaves.
> > 
> > Currently Core pattern in Netbsd slaves is
> > # /sbin/sysctl -n kern.defcorename
> > /%n-%p.core
> > 
> > Lets set same in Centos slaves as well
> > # /sbin/sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern="/%e-%p.core"
> > 
> > Once the above changes are done in CentOs machines, I shall push a
> > patch to glusterfs-patch-acceptance-tests making changes needed in
> > regression.sh
> 
> This most likely needs to be run by the regression test itself. Or at
> least have the check in the main script starting the regressions. On
> CentOS and other Fedora/RHEL based systems, we should probably integrate
> with abrt instead of writing our own solution? abrt generates everything
> we need, and it matches much more closely to what users have on their
> systems. It has a huge advantage to use existing tools so that
> developers and users can apply standard knowledge of the OS.
> 
> Not sure how NetBSD and FreeBSD do this, I do not think they have abrt.

Just verified whether this package is installed in one of our Netbsd slaves,
it was not installed, also I don't see it even in
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/7.0_2015Q4/All/

For now lets dump the core with our solution as stated above.

--
Prasanna
   
> 
> Niels
>