make test: enhance core-file information

Change-Id: I1283960a9a49f6d70b9d7b7793cfb345c22ccdea
Signed-off-by: Klement Sekera <ksekera@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/test/hook.py b/test/hook.py
index 49b41c91dff..f4bafa16f19 100644
--- a/test/hook.py
+++ b/test/hook.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import sys
 import traceback
 from log import RED, single_line_delim, double_line_delim
 from debug import spawn_gdb
+from subprocess import check_output, CalledProcessError
 
 
 class Hook(object):
@@ -67,8 +68,17 @@ class PollHook(Hook):
             open('%s/_core_handled' % self.testcase.tempdir, 'a').close()
             spawn_gdb(self.testcase.vpp_bin, core_path, self.logger)
         else:
-            self.logger.critical("Core file present, debug with: gdb %s %s" %
-                                 (self.testcase.vpp_bin, core_path))
+            self.logger.error("Core file present, debug with: gdb %s %s" %
+                              (self.testcase.vpp_bin, core_path))
+            self.logger.error("Running `file %s':" % core_path)
+            try:
+                info = check_output(["file", core_path])
+                self.logger.error(info)
+            except CalledProcessError as e:
+                self.logger.error(
+                    "Could not run `file' utility on core-file, "
+                    "rc=%s" % e.returncode)
+                pass
 
     def poll_vpp(self):
         """