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Re: gdb/2054: can't start X server under gdb
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 20 Dec 2005 16:38:01 -0000
- Subject: Re: gdb/2054: can't start X server under gdb
- Reply-to: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
The following reply was made to PR gdb/2054; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Adam Jackson <ajackson@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb/2054: can't start X server under gdb
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:34:00 -0500
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:26:02PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> That turned into about 50M of log data. The truncated version is at:
>
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~ajax/gdb-bug-2054/strace-of-gdb.txt
>
> The rt_sigaction at the end repeated forever until i sigkilled strace
> (4.5.1). I never got to the internal-error message from gdb.
Oh sorry - you have to not use strace -f with gdb, because only one
process can ptrace a target at a time. We want a trace of GDB, but not
of the X server.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC