init: add tips for debugging linker errors when launching init services

Test: we can see linker errors in dmesg when following these tips
Change-Id: I86b65e01d06ed7c0b908c4512d55872cd5595eca
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Tom Cherry 2019-09-26 15:24:40 -07:00
parent 2a62d42704
commit 9328021ce7
2 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -784,6 +784,12 @@ affected.
Debugging init
--------------
When a service starts from init, it may fail to `execv()` the service. This is not typical, and may
point to an error happening in the linker as the new service is started. The linker in Android
prints its logs to `logd` and `stderr`, so they are visible in `logcat`. If the error is encountered
before it is possible to access `logcat`, the `stdio_to_kmsg` service option may be used to direct
the logs that the linker prints to `stderr` to `kmsg`, where they can be read via a serial port.
Launching init services without init is not recommended as init sets up a significant amount of
environment (user, groups, security label, capabilities, etc) that is hard to replicate manually.

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@ -490,7 +490,8 @@ Result<void> Service::Start() {
SetProcessAttributesAndCaps();
if (!ExpandArgsAndExecv(args_, sigstop_)) {
PLOG(ERROR) << "cannot execve('" << args_[0] << "')";
PLOG(ERROR) << "cannot execv('" << args_[0]
<< "'). See the 'Debugging init' section of init's README.md for tips";
}
_exit(127);