[Bug 1645501] Re: corefiles not created in armhf chroot on arm64 porter

[Brian Murray]

Kees provided me the following debdiffs for testing on zesty and yakkety
armhf chroots.

** Patch added: "gdb_7.12-0ubuntu3.debdiff"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdb/+bug/1645501/+attachment/4785470/+files/gdb_7.12-0ubuntu3.debdiff

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Title:
  corefiles not created in armhf chroot on arm64 porter

Status in gdb package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I'm filing this about gdb per Steve's suggestion, although this could
  be an issue somewhere else.

  I recently discovered that the apport-test-crash
  (https://code.launchpad.net/~daisy-pluckers/error-tracker-deployment
  /test-crashes) crash files produced for armhf are crash files without
  CoreDumps.  This happened sometime between 20160531 and 20161025.
  I've recreated this on the porter-arm64 box with the following minimal
  test case (generate-sigsegv-crash.py is from apport-test-crashes):

  schroot -c yakkety-armhf
  python generate-sigsegv-crash.py cat

  Running this on both armhf and arm64 we can see the following
  different output.

  armhf chroot on porter-armhf:

    47 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
    48 0xb6f599e4 in read () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84
    49 84      ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S: No such file or directory.
    50 (gdb) Saved corefile /tmp/tmp840s08i1/my.core

  armhf chroot on porter-arm64:

    47 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
    48 0xf772f9e4 in read () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84
    49 84      ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S: No such file or directory.
    50 (gdb) Unable to fetch the floating point registers.: Invalid argument.

  Notice how there is no core file save on porter-arm64.

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