No debug info in the kernel makes tools like systemtap worthless
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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acpi |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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Debian |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: kernel-
An excellent debugging tool, SystemTap is available in universe yet there is no way to make use of it without recompiling an ubuntu kernel.
From http://
Debian kernels do not contain debug information and there is no automatic way of installing or producing separate -dbg packages as RedHat has. Thus, there is no escape: you will have to manually configure and build a new kernel image package. It may help to lobby the Debian kernel-package maintainers, for example via debian bug #365349.
So SystemTap is completely worthless without debuginfo in the Ubuntu kernel. Fedora / RHEL enable this by default so why can't Ubuntu? Maybe SystemTap (package stap) should just be removed from the repository since there is no way to make use of it.
Changed in linux-source-2.6.17: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in acpi: | |
status: | Unknown → Unconfirmed |
Changed in linux: | |
assignee: | nobody → ubuntu-kernel-team |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
Changed in acpi: | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in debian: | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in acpi: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in debian: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
There is a patch to the debbug to enable debug kernel images to be built. Can this be applied to the ubuntu kernel package? BenC?