Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Impala 4.3.0
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ghx-label-6
Description
The Wiki page "Debugging Impala Minidumps" is a bit stale and could use some modifications. Specifically:
- In
IMPALA-12125, we added the ability to dump symbols for OS packages that don't have a separate symbols package. Some commercial distributions of Impala such as Cloudera's CDP produce this type of packaging. - The documentation for dumping symbols from OS packages references packages from Cloudera's CDH 5.8. This is an old version, and it would be useful for the example to be on a more up-to-date version.
- The section "Extracting from Jenkins build artifacts" does not seem to be useful anymore.
- minidump-2-core is definitely a useful workflow and filling in information about it would be useful. In particular, a valuable technique is to use minidump-2-core, then run gdb with the unstripped binary. Examining the stack can yield the query / thread that crashed.