lttng-crash — Recover and read LTTng trace buffers in the event of a crash
The Linux Trace Toolkit: next generation is an open-source software package used for correlated tracing of the Linux kernel, user applications, and user libraries.
LTTng consists of Linux kernel modules (for Linux kernel tracing) and dynamically loaded libraries (for user application and library tracing).
The lttng-crash
command-line tool recovers LTTng trace buffers in the
event of a system crash.
lttng-crash
reads files within the directory SHMDIR
and does one
of:
--extract
option
Launches a trace reader (see the --viewer
option) to view the
recovered traces.
--extract
=DIR
option
Extracts the files as uncorrupted LTTng traces to the DIR
directory.
SHMDIR
is the directory specified as the argument of the
--shm-path
option of the lttng-create(1) command used to
create the recording session for which to recover the traces.
-x
DIR
, --extract
=DIR
Extract recovered traces to the directory DIR
; do not execute
any trace reader.
-v
, --verbose
Increase verbosity.
Specify this option up to three times to get more levels of verbosity.
-e
READER
, --viewer
=READER
Use the trace reader READER
to read the trace buffers.
READER
is the absolute path to the reader command to use, and it can
contain command arguments as well. lttng-crash
passes the trace
directory paths to the READER
command as its last arguments.
Without this option, lttng crash
uses babeltrace2(1) if it’s
available. Otherwise, it tries to use babeltrace(1).
-h
, --help
Show help.
This option attempts to launch /usr/bin/man
to view this manual page.
Override the manual pager path with the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
environment
variable.
--list-options
List available command options and quit.
-V
, --version
Show version and quit.
Success
Error
Fatal error
Mailing list for support and
development: [email protected]
IRC channel: #lttng
on irc.oftc.net
This program is part of the LTTng-tools project.
LTTng-tools is distributed under the
GNU General
Public License version 2. See the
LICENSE
file
for details.
Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory at École Polytechnique de Montréal for the LTTng journey.
Also thanks to the Ericsson teams working on tracing which helped us greatly with detailed bug reports and unusual test cases.