gdb/2289: error in get_traced_signals on Solaris 9

[ajmvandenberg at hotmail dot com]

>Number:         2289
>Category:       gdb
>Synopsis:       error in get_traced_signals on Solaris 9
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul 25 07:58:01 UTC 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     ajmvandenberg@hotmail.com
>Release:        GNU gdb 6.6.50.20070724
>Organization:
>Environment:
SunOS s-001 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
Using built-in specs.
Target: sparc-sun-solaris2.9
Configured with: ../gcc-4.2.0/configure --prefix=/systems/ccis/gcc --enable-languages=c,c++
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.0
This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.9"...
>Description:
When running gdb on any executable, when the run command is given, the debugger comes up with the following message:
procfs: init_inferior, get_traced_signals line 4838, /proc/13443: Error 0.

Some truss output:

write(1, " S t a r t i n g   p r o".., 37)      = 37
vfork()                                         = 14081
open("/proc/14081/ctl", O_WRONLY)               = 7
open("/proc/14081/status", O_RDONLY)            = 8
lseek(8, 0, SEEK_SET)                           = 0
read(8, "\0\0\003\0\0\001\0\0 701".., 1232)     = 1232
write(7, "\0\0\003", 4)                         = 4
lseek(8, 0, SEEK_SET)                           = 0
read(8, "\0\0\003\0\0\001\0\0 701".., 1232)     = 1232
getcontext(0xFFBFE4D0)
setcontext(0xFFBFE4D0)
fcntl(0, F_GETFL, 0x00000000)                   = 8194
fstat64(0, 0xFFBFF078)                          = 0
ioctl(0, TCGETS, 0x0031B5A0)                    = 0
ioctl(0, TIOCGSID, 0xFFBFF114)                  = 0
getsid(0)                                       = 20380
ioctl(0, TIOCGPGRP, 0xFFBFF17C)                 = 0
procfs: init_inferior, get_traced_signals line 4838, /proc/14081: Error 0.write(2, " p r o c f s :   i n i t".., 74)    = 74

write(2, "\n", 1)                               = 1
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, 0x002D9DB8, 0x002D9DC8)  = 0
ioctl(0, TIOCGWINSZ, 0xFFBFF190)                = 0
ioctl(0, TIOCSWINSZ, 0xFFBFF190)                = 0
ioctl(0, TCGETS, 0xFFBFF254)                    = 0
ioctl(0, TCSETSW, 0xFFBFF254)                   = 0
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, 0x002D9DC8, 0x00000000) = 0
sigaction(SIGINT, 0xFFBFF098, 0xFFBFF138)       = 0
sigaction(SIGTERM, 0xFFBFF098, 0xFFBFF138)      = 0
sigaction(SIGQUIT, 0xFFBFF098, 0xFFBFF138)      = 0
sigaction(SIGALRM, 0xFFBFF128, 0xFFBFF1C8)      = 0
sigaction(SIGTSTP, 0xFFBFF098, 0xFFBFF138)      = 0
sigaction(SIGTTOU, 0xFFBFF098, 0xFFBFF138)      = 0
sigaction(SIGTTIN, 0xFFBFF098, 0xFFBFF138)      = 0
sigaction(SIGWINCH, 0xFFBFF098, 0xFFBFF138)     = 0
(gdb) write(1, " ( g d b )  ", 6)                       = 6
>How-To-Repeat:
Take any executable.
> gdb <executable>
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This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.9"...
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that.  Symbol format `elf32-sparc' unknown.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/berg/bin/gvim
procfs: init_inferior, get_traced_signals line 4838, /proc/13443: Error 0.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
procfs: fetch_registers, get_gregs line 3708, /proc/13443: Error 0.
(gdb) quit
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
> 
>Fix:

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