[lttng-dev] Problem to get lttng work with a daemon application

[Hans Nordebäck]

Hi, I've just started using lttng and run it in Ubuntu 12.04 in VirtualBox.

I have run the sample applications without any problem, but I have 
problems to get a daemon application work.

I have added tracepoint support in the same way as for the sample 
applications and do the following:

1) The lttng-sessiond (version 2.0.1) is started (with 
--verbose--verbose-consumer).
2) I start the daemon application with one tracepoint implemented.
3) I can see that the lttng-sessiond gets called regarding this tracepoint:

DEBUG1: App registered with pid:18421 ppid:18419 uid:0 gid:0 sock:18 
name:osafamfnd (version 2.0) [in ust_app_register() at ust-app.c:1365]

4) I run, strace -f lttng -v list -u, and can see that it "hangs" in 
recvmsg:
write(2, "DEBUG1: Getting UST tracing even"..., 81DEBUG1: Getting UST 
tracing events [in list_ust_events() at     commands/list.c:253]
) = 81
getuid()                                = 0
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 3
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, 
path="/var/run/lttng/client-lttng-sessiond"}, 110) = 0
geteuid()                               = 0
getegid()                               = 0
sendmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL, 
msg_iov(1)=[{"\16\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
8784}], msg_controllen=28, {cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, 
cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=28878, uid=0, gid=0}}, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 8784
recvmsg(3,

5) the lttng-sessiond outputs only the following and hangs as long as 
the daemon application is running.
DEBUG1: Processing client command 14 [in process_client_msg() at 
main.c:3309]

6) The only difference between sample app logs and daemon app logs is 
that the pid and ppid seen at DEBUG1: App registered. In the daemon case 
in this run it is pid 18421 ppid 18419 but when I print it in the 
function calling tracepoint
it is pid 18430. I don't know if that is related to the problem. Any 
help on this would be appreciated.

/Thanks Hans