How to create breakpad symbols

[epezhman]

Hey, I run the mini-breakpad-server on my server and it's collecting the reports correctly from my Electron app, however I don't know how to create breakpad symbols (for windows, OSX, Linux) to work with my Electron app, could you give me a hint please? thanks

[4thAce]

There is documentation on Google on how to generate symbols using their utils
https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad/+/master/docs/linux_starter_guide.md
And it points to this Python tool which is supposed to dump out the symbols
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/crashreporter/tools/symbolstore.py

[bobbyg603]

Electron posts the symbols on their releases page: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases. Hope this helps!

[PinkyJie]

@bobbyg603 I'm also confused with this symbol problem, thanks for you links. So I just need to download the symbol file from that link and put electron.breakpad.syms in folder pool/symbols/PRODUCT_NAME under the mini-breakpad-symbols and everything works, is that correct? So each electron app use the same symbol?

[patricksebastien]

Would like to know too!

[ibash]

Posterity: I found that you need to put the symbols under pool/symbols NOT pool/symbols/PRODUCT_NAME. That is, if I do tree pool I get:

pool/
├── database
│   └── dirty
│       └── db
├── files
│   └── minidump
│       ├── 7d20d0d2-a867-422f-9539-1b7dcd644988
│       └── e655f7f8-f934-4f8e-8381-c88909f4ebc3
└── symbols
    ├── AE
    │   └── 0BDA9D80369839DBB481465DE086373F0
    │       └── AE.sym
    ├── ATS
    │   └── 0F3E2B9678A9388D8D4AB9F9B42AE21F0
    │       └── ATS.sym
    ├── AVFAudio
    │   └── B036C6FCA3D030D3962030D16A149C9F0
    │       └── AVFAudio.sym
    ├── AVFoundation
    │   └── 1747E5C62CCA335B860FD1321071184F0
    │       └── AVFoundation.sym
    ├── Accelerate
    │   └── 07DD68BE0B1D36F186389A9C9BEF5FB00
    │       └── Accelerate.sym
    ├── AppContainer
    │   └── B76C2BBED71D3EB3BFEF59E83C5E12270
    │       └── AppContainer.sym
    ├── AppKit
    │   └── 2A8C9B80E63238BCAA80371F2A4F10CE0
    │       └── AppKit.sym
...
    ├── Electron
    │   └── C11B8E11EDD237B99AB55FE9E97FFFFB0
    │       └── Electron.sym
    ├── Electron\ Framework
    │   ├── 1108DB54511E3E4996C0FA01A31886F10
    │   │   └── Electron\ Framework.sym
    │   └── 8C33827C51A430938BA6977833ADA7230
    │       └── Electron\ Framework.sym

[fttx]

@ibash it worked.
Do the symbols of the latest electron release include the older ones? Or do i need to load the appropriate version of the symbols to debug an older minidump?

[ibash]

@fttx I don’t think they do, you’d have to load the older ones afaik.

Also since I posted this sentry came out with support for crashlogs, if running a production app I’d also recommend taking a look at that

[wuwei2150]

目录应该是这样：symbols/electron.exe.pdb/994757D4933F4FFF84BEDCEB9DF361EA1/electron.exe.sym，其中994757D4933F4FFF84BEDCEB9DF361EA1是head electron.exe.sym生成的MODULEID

[pq-dong]

What does this PRODUCT_NAME stand for? I find mary symbol package in https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v4.2.4, Does this symbol package version refer to the server system?

[Dragonsofts]

目录应该是这样：symbols/electron.exe.pdb/994757D4933F4FFF84BEDCEB9DF361EA1/electron.exe.sym，其中994757D4933F4FFF84BEDCEB9DF361EA1是head electron.exe.sym生成的MODULEID

你是怎么把dump post上去的啊

[GuitarChen]

目录应该是这样：symbols/electron.exe.pdb/994757D4933F4FFF84BEDCEB9DF361EA1/electron.exe.sym，其中994757D4933F4FFF84BEDCEB9DF361EA1是head electron.exe.sym生成的MODULEID

你是怎么把dump post上去的啊
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[Nic0S]

For those trying to generate their own symbols for a custom electron version, looks like there's an electron-build-tools target for doing so, e build electron:electron_symbols seems to do it