Re: gdb/1622: vfork; no such file; root; access rights??

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

The following reply was made to PR gdb/1622; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Andreas <zickzack@w84u.org>
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb/1622: vfork; no such file; root; access rights??
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:14:40 -0400

 On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 09:06:43AM -0600, Andreas wrote:
 > Thanks you very much for your answer. You were right; $SHELL was not
 > set. I found out, that for some reason "/bin/bash" was missing in
 > the user line within /etc/passwd.
 > 
 > After adding it gdb works fine also under user. I have no clue
 > why/when the /etc/passwd file changed (probably during an automated
 > update...?)
 > 
 > To improve the debugging in such a case for a not so experienced
 > programmer, a better error message like "$SHELL not set" would be much
 > more helpful. So I suggest to add this check into gdb since gdb seems
 > to rely on it.
 
 I need to fix the use of $SHELL entirely.  Haven't had time.
 
 > Another questing: Is there a way to make strace follow the child, who
 > fails in this case?
 
 strace -fF
 
 
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 Daniel Jacobowitz
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