Disclaimer: I'm primarily a Fedora user, but I manage a few Ubuntu-based servers, which are based on Debian, and my issue seems to exist in plain Debian as well, so here goes...
A few days ago, I had a program dump core. It crashed in a function in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprocps.so.0.0.1, and no symbols were installed. So I did: $ dpkg -S /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprocps.so.0.0.1 libprocps0:amd64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprocps.so.0.0.1 Aha - libprocps0-dbg must be missing! So I tried it install it -- no luck. After reading things like http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace and visiting pages like http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/procps, it seems like there are, in fact, no symbols available at all. I can build a new package from source, install it, and hope for another crash, but this is a nasty thing to do to a production server. Does Debian really not have debug symbols for all (or even most) packages? Fedora is really good about this. Am I missing something? (FWIW, this has happened to be quite a few times in quite a few different packages. I'm fairly agnostic about distributions, but this may cause me to move to something Fedora-based for my servers at some point. I've wasted a fair amount of time doing symbol-less debugging on my servers, and I've never had this problem on my Fedora development box.) Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caobl_7fyre7yo0dexh_3vobbwe_4be2mphh_pbkz3k8tamz...@mail.gmail.com
