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debugging threads
- From: "Tim Michals" <tcmichals at verizon dot net>
- To: <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:59:56 -0500
- Subject: debugging threads
Hello,
I'm trying to debug simple multithreaded app and get the following error:
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Cannot find new threads: generic error
Can set break points and trace as shown below.
(gdb)
Here is the info..
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) list
9 #include <iostream>
10
11 void helloworld(const char* who)
12 {
13 std::cout << who << "says, \"Hello World.\"" << std::endl;
14 }
15
16 int main()
17 {
18 boost::thread thrd(boost::bind(&helloworld, "Bob"));
(gdb) list
19 thrd.join();
20 }
21
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048320: file ../helloworld.cpp, line 18.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/tcmichals/workspace/example/Debug/example
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Cannot find new threads: generic error
(gdb) n
Single stepping until exit from function _start,
which has no line number information.
Cannot find user-level thread for LWP 3719: generic error
(gdb) n
Single stepping until exit from function _start,
which has no line number information.
Cannot find user-level thread for LWP 3719: generic error
The kernel version is:
Linux version 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 (kojibuilder@xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com)
(gcc v
ersion 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP Tue Aug 21 22:36:56 EDT
2007
Several posting on this issue i.e.
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-08/msg00128.html