Comment 6 for bug 1073580

The other possible change might be making a sysctl change because
mythbackend runs suid

sudo sysctl -w fs.suid_dumpable=2

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Mario Limonciello <email address hidden>wrote:

> I believe there was some sort of problem starting in 0.24 that the ulimit
> needs to be raised to allow the process to core dump
>
> If you add this to the upstart script:
>
> ulimit -c unlimited
>
>
> that will allow mythbackend to do core dumps. I'm unsure of the security
> implications of this though (there might be some).
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Brian J. Murrell <email address hidden>wrote:
>
>> On 12-10-31 10:40 AM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>> > Shouldn't the crash file already be written to /var/crash/ ?
>>
>> Interesting point. It doesn't seem to be the case however. Given this
>> segfault:
>>
>> Oct 30 22:00:03 pvr kernel: [1937721.428406] mythbackend[13502]:
>> segfault at 28 ip 0620ef91 sp b2ffe140 error 4 in
>> libQtCore.so.4.8.1[607d000+2d4000]
>>
>> There was nothing in /var/crash about it.
>>
>> However given a different segfault:
>>
>> Oct 29 16:02:05 pvr kernel: [1829843.051149] mythcommflag[2020]:
>> segfault at b37fb3f4 ip 080626cc sp bfa4d1f0 error 4 in
>> mythcommflag[8048000+6e000]
>>
>> There is indeed a:
>>
>> -rw-r----- 1 mythtv mythtv 11878631 Oct 29 16:02
>> _usr_bin_mythcommflag.103.crash
>>
>> So what's different about these processes and why one's segfault is
>> being caught by apport and the other is not?
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1073580
>>
>> Title:
>> mythtv-backend needs to run in writable directory
>>
>> Status in “mythtv” package in Ubuntu:
>> Incomplete
>>
>> Bug description:
>> The mythtv-backend process needs to be run in a directory that it can
>> write into, ~mythtv for example. This is required so that a core file
>> can be collected if/when it segfaults -- like it has been doing here.
>>
>> ProblemType: Bug
>> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>> Package: mythtv-backend
>> 2:0.25.2+fixes.20121002.139bd59-0ubuntu0mythbuntu4 [origin:
>> LP-PPA-mythbuntu-0.25]
>> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
>> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic i686
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythavtest.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythbackend.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythccextractor.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythcommflag.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythfrontend.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythjobqueue.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythlcdserver.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythmediaserver.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythmetadatalookup.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythpreviewgen.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythshutdown.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythtranscode.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythtv.setup.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythutil.log:
>>
>> .var.log.mythtv.mythwelcome.log:
>>
>> ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
>> Architecture: i386
>> CrashDB: mythbuntu
>> Date: Wed Oct 31 10:07:13 2012
>> Installed_mythtv_dbg: 2:0.25.2+fixes.20121002.139bd59-0ubuntu0mythbuntu4
>> ProcEnviron:
>> TERM=xterm
>> PATH=(custom, no user)
>> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
>> SHELL=/bin/bash
>> SourcePackage: mythtv
>> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>> modified.conffile..etc.logrotate.d.mythtv.backend: [modified]
>> mtime.conffile..etc.init.mythtv.backend.conf: 2012-10-31T10:05:57
>> mtime.conffile..etc.logrotate.d.mythtv.backend: 2012-06-04T22:15:10
>>
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> Mario Limonciello
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Mario Limonciello
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