Help needed to record an experiment for a running process

Question

Hi Team,
While trying to record an experiment through Profile Running process option, we found issues in generating an experiment file.The error stated that the directory wasn't writable but we made sure all the permissions are available for the folder. The application is a C++ implementation.
Have attached the output message:
Running: /x/opt/SolarisStudio12.4-beta_mar14-linux-x86/lib/analyzer/lib/../../../bin/collect -P 16824 -o test.1.er -d /x/web/STAGE2LP14/xxxx -p on -S on
name test. is in use; changed to test.4.er
Reading xxxx
Reading ld-linux.so.2
name test. is in use; changed to test.4.er
Reading libppfaketime.so.1
Reading librt.so.1
Reading libpthread.so.0
Reading libcrypt.so.1
Reading libz.so.1
Reading libdl.so.2
Reading libkrb5.so.3
Reading libicui18n.so.36
Reading libicuuc.so.36
Reading libicudata.so.36
Reading libicuio.so.36
Reading libexpat.so.0
Reading libqpidmessaging.so.3
Reading libqpidtypes.so.1
Reading libxerces-c.so.27
Reading libstdc++.so.6
Reading libm.so.6
Reading libc.so.6
Reading libgcc_s.so.1
Reading libk5crypto.so.3
Reading libcom_err.so.2
Reading libkrb5support.so.0
Reading libkeyutils.so.1
Reading libresolv.so.2
Reading libqpidclient.so.6
Reading libuuid.so.1
Reading libselinux.so.1
Reading libqpidcommon.so.6
Reading libsepol.so.1
Reading libboost_program_options.so.2
Reading libboost_filesystem.so.2
Reading libsasl2.so.2
Reading ISO8859-1.so
Reading libcollector.so
Attached to process 16824
t@4133656384 (l@16824) stopped in __kernel_vsyscall at 0xffffe410
0xffffe410: __kernel_vsyscall+0x0010:    popl     %ebp
Process ID: 12981
dbx: The HW counter configuration could not be loaded
Elapsed Time: 85 ms
Run "collect -h" or "er_kernel -h" with no other arguments for more information on HW counters on this system.
Execution completed, exit status is 0
dbx: Creating experiment database /x/web/STAGE2LP14/xxxxxx/test.4.er (Process ID: 13736) ...dbx: Creating experiment database /x/web/STAGE2LP14/xxxxxx/test.4.er (Process ID: 13736) ...
dbx: Experiment directory not writable
Experiment aborted
error at line 16 of file 'dbxcol3wC1XU'
detaching from process 16824
Even we tried manually using the collect command the process started successfully but while terminating the process using CTRL+ENTER we got coredump error
f7f40000-f7f50000 rwxp f7f40000 00:00 0
f7f50000-f7f6b000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 589838                             /lib/ld-2.5.so
f7f6b000-f7f6c000 r-xp 0001a000 fd:00 589838                             /lib/ld-2.5.so
f7f6c000-f7f6d000 rwxp 0001b000 fd:00 589838                             /lib/ld-2.5.so
ffbe7000-ffbfc000 rwxp 7ffffffe9000 00:00 0                              [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp ffffe000 00:00 0
dbx: internal error: signal SIGABRT (sent by tkill)
dbx's coredump will appear in /tmp
We arent sure how to terminate the collect process manually.
/x/opt/SolarisStudio12.4-beta_mar14-linux-x86/lib/analyzer/lib/../../../bin/collect -P 16824 -o test.1.er -d /x/web/STAGE2LP14/xxxx -p on -S on
Please help us
Thanks
Sattish.

Answer 1

Hi Darryl,
We tried with the below mentioned option
./collect -P 24829 -o /tmp/test.9.er  But still the same error
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Reading atlasserv
Reading ld-linux.so.2
Reading libppfaketime.so.1
Reading librt.so.1
Reading libpthread.so.0
Reading libcrypt.so.1
Reading libz.so.1
Reading libdl.so.2
Reading libkrb5.so.3
Reading libicui18n.so.36
Reading libicuuc.so.36
Reading libicudata.so.36
Reading libicuio.so.36
Reading libexpat.so.0
Reading libqpidmessaging.so.3
Reading libqpidtypes.so.1
Reading libxerces-c.so.27
Reading libstdc++.so.6
Reading libm.so.6
Reading libc.so.6
Reading libgcc_s.so.1
Reading libk5crypto.so.3
Reading libcom_err.so.2
Reading libkrb5support.so.0
Reading libkeyutils.so.1
Reading libresolv.so.2
Reading libqpidclient.so.6
Reading libuuid.so.1
Reading libselinux.so.1
Reading libqpidcommon.so.6
Reading libsepol.so.1
Reading libboost_program_options.so.2
Reading libboost_filesystem.so.2
Reading libsasl2.so.2
Reading ISO8859-1.so
Reading libcollector.so
Attached to process 24829
t@4133668672 (l@24829) stopped in __kernel_vsyscall at 0xffffe410
0xffffe410: __kernel_vsyscall+0x0010:   popl     %ebp
dbx: The HW counter configuration could not be loaded
Run "collect -h" or "er_kernel -h" with no other arguments for more information on HW counters on this system.
dbx: Creating experiment database /tmp/test.9.er (Process ID: 7769) ...
dbx: Experiment directory not writable
Experiment aborted
error at line 15 of file 'dbxcol61PZeE'
detaching from process 24829
Could you please review
Thanks
Sattish.