ntpd hangs under FBSD 8

[Alexey Shuvaev]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:17:50PM -0600, Peter Steele wrote:
> >You're going to need a debug version of libc, too.
> >gdb won't be able to find a backtrace out of a libc function without it.
> 
> What's the proper way to build a debug version of libc and the other
> libraries? I tried this:
> 
> export CFLAGS="-O0"
> make buildworld
> make installworld DESTDIR=/mydir
> 
> and then copied libc.so.7 from /mydir/lib to the /lib dir on
> my target system. I also replaced the ntpd binary with the debug version.
> I can see that -O0 is being used in the various "cc" commands that are
> generated, but libc still doesn't seem to be built properly.
> When I attach to a hung ntpd process, I get this:
> 
> # gdb /usr/sbin/ntpd -p 2113
> GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
> ...
> Attaching to program: /usr/sbin/ntpd, process 2113
> Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.5...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> ...
> Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.7...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.7
> Reading symbols from /lib/libthr.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> ...
> [Switching to Thread 8012041c0 (LWP 100283)]
> 0x0000000800dbeddc in select () from /lib/libc.so.7
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0000000800dbeddc in select () from /lib/libc.so.7
> #1  0x00000000004335de in ntpdmain ()
> #2  0x000000000043310b in main ()
> 
> So I'm getting some symbols from ntpd but I still can't see into select().
>
I think not.

> It hangs in there forever so that's where I need to drill down further.
> How do I get libc built with full debug symbols?
> 
I haven't tried it by myself but think here is the way to go: put the
following to /etc/make.conf and recompile needed libraries / ports.
WITH_DEBUG=yes
DEBUG_FLAGS=-g

This should do the trick for both base and ports.

> 
> [snip]
> 
> If anyone has any clues at all as to what is causing this issue,
> I'd appreciate the feedback. Here's the code that reproduces this behavior.
> 
> #! /usr/bin/env python
> import os
> import threading
> 
> class RunProc(threading.Thread):
>     def __init__(self, cmd):
>         threading.Thread.__init__(self)
>         self.cmd = cmd
> 
>     def run(self):
>         os.system(self.cmd)
> 
> def main():
>     RunProc("/usr/sbin/ntpd -g -q").start()
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     main()
> 
Mmm... Do other daemons (sshd, lpd, ...) also fail when started
through this script? Normal commands (ls, ps) seem not affected.

0.02$,
Alexey.