gdb failing to import backtrace module
Yaakov Selkowitz
yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri Sep 12 20:15:00 GMT 2014
On 2014-09-08 20:04, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> I am trying to run a non-cygwin program in gdb, and when I enter the `run`
> command, I get the following error.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/bin/cyggobject-2.0-0.dll-gdb.py", line
> 9, in <module>
> from gobject import register
> File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/gobject.py", line 3, in <module>
> import gdb.backtrace
> ImportError: No module named backtrace
>
> gdb continues to run the program as expected, but the backtrace commands are
> missing.
>
> I tried reinstalling the Cygwin package "gdb" and rerunning, but the problem
> persisted. Is this a problem with my Cygwin GDB installation, and if so,
> how can I fix it?
This is actually an upstream issue due to an API change in gdb-7.7:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623552
I'm building a glib2.0 update now that includes the latest upstream
changes for the gdb scripts, which should fix this error message.
HTH,
Yaakov
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