Bug 62377

Summary: strace hangs when running programs from command line
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Nate Eldredge <nge>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: nge
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Nate Eldredge 2004-02-05 09:40:05 UTC 
Using strace 4.5.1 from the port, if you try to strace a program from 
the command line, it hangs.

$ strace ls
.... (nothing happens)

However, attaching to an already running process works fine.

Bizarrely enough, the following also works:

$ strace -o /dev/null strace ls

How-To-Repeat: See above.
Comment 1 Cy Schubert 2004-02-07 06:08:28 UTC 
In message <200401300622.i0U6MDvw019935@mercury.lan>, Nate Eldredge writes:
> 
> >Number:         62377

I am unable to recreate this problem under -CURRENT.


Cheers,
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Comment 2 Nate Eldredge 2004-02-07 10:20:45 UTC 
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Cy Schubert wrote:

> In message <200401300622.i0U6MDvw019935@mercury.lan>, Nate Eldredge writes:
> >
> > >Number:         62377
>
> I am unable to recreate this problem under -CURRENT.

Extremely mysterious.  I upgraded to 5.2-RELEASE and rebuilt strace, and
it's still broken.

Stranger yet:

strace strace ls: breaks

truss strace ls: works

running strace under stock gdb 5.2.1 breaks

running strace under gdb 5.3 (from port) works

-- 
Nate Eldredge
nge@cs.hmc.edu
Comment 3 Nate Eldredge 2004-02-07 10:34:58 UTC 
And now I'm really confused.  If I add `printf("");' as the first
non-declaration line of `main' in strace, it works.  When I take it out,
it breaks again.  Something very bizzare is going on.

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Cy Schubert wrote:
>
> > In message <200401300622.i0U6MDvw019935@mercury.lan>, Nate Eldredge writes:
> > >
> > > >Number:         62377
> >
> > I am unable to recreate this problem under -CURRENT.
>
> Extremely mysterious.  I upgraded to 5.2-RELEASE and rebuilt strace, and
> it's still broken.
>
> Stranger yet:
>
> strace strace ls: breaks
>
> truss strace ls: works
>
> running strace under stock gdb 5.2.1 breaks
>
> running strace under gdb 5.3 (from port) works
>
> --
> Nate Eldredge
> nge@cs.hmc.edu
>

-- 
Nate Eldredge
nge@cs.hmc.edu
Comment 4 Kirill Ponomarev freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-02-13 14:04:32 UTC 
Hi,

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:22:13PM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> >Number:         62377
> >Category:       ports
> >Synopsis:       strace hangs when running programs from command line
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
> >State:          open


Could you please investigate this PR with submitter ?

-Kirill
Comment 5 Kirill Ponomarev freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-02-13 14:04:39 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Asked maintainer to investigate it with submitter.
Comment 6 Mark Linimon 2004-11-20 05:54:11 UTC 
Adding to audit trail from email from maintainer:

Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports Problem Reports for ports you maintain
Date: Wednesday 20 October 2004 06:30 pm
From: Alex Semenyaka <alex@semenyaka.ru>

I could not reproduce the problem described since May 2004. Strace is
frequently used by me so I hope that the problem does not exist
anymore and was inspired by the changes in the kernel code.

        SY, Alex

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To submitter: does the problem still persist in 5.3R?
Comment 7 Drazen Kacar 2004-12-26 16:15:21 UTC 
Happened to me too, with 5.2.1 and 5.3. Attached patch fixes the problem.
I didn't test on 4.x systems.

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Comment 8 Florent Thoumie freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-04-12 08:55:52 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Patch committed, Nate said it fixed this issue in private email.