Re: insight crash

[Barry Branham <bbranham at networkusa dot net>]

Fernando Nasser wrote:

> Barry Branham wrote:
> >
> > I recompiled gnomine with -g.  Insight again just starts with a blank source
> > window - no menu bar, just the frame.  'ddd' opens it fine, however.
> >
>
> At the bottom of the source window there are two comboboxes.  Do they
> show
> any files in there?
>

No, it's just a frame from the window manager.

>
> Do you have any ~/.gdbinit file around?
>
> Another thing to try: delete your ~/.gdbtkinit file and see if it makes
> any
> difference.
>

Deleted ~/.gdbtkinit (no .gdbinit).  Retried Insight with gnomine, same result.

>
> > Here's the result of running my application with Insight and then using regular
> > gdb on the resulting Insight core with a longer backtrace - the  looping stack
> > frame involves 'VkSimpleWindow' which is part of the Viewkit package I
> > mentioned.  As noted in my first post, I was using Insight to debug this same
> > program on RH 6.2 before I changed to RH7.0 and it worked.
> >
>
> Now I am getting confused.  This is supposed to be a core dum of gdb
> right?
> It runs in one address space while your program, that gdb calls the
> "inferior"
> runs in another address space.  Gdb only sees your program's stack
> because it
> reads small chunks of inferior memory using system calls (ptrace).
>
> Bottom line: you can't see the inferior programs stack in a core dump
> from a
> gdb program.
>
> Maybe this core dump is from your application.  The file command says it
> is a 'gdb'
> core file because your program was invoked through GDB (so the command
> line where
> it was started from was actually "gdb").
>
> But this is just a theory.  And it does not explain why it works with
> -nw.

My Dash app isn't crashing right now, the core is from Insight.

>
>
> Can you try the following:
> gdb -x -nw /usr/local/bin/Dash
> ...
> symbol-file /usr/local/bin/Dash
>

Tried running with '-x -nw': got the same segfault after it churned awhile.

It occured to me it might help you if I got the to top of the stack trace I sent last
time from running Insight with Dash so I made a tall window and held the return key.
Here's the result:

--------------

#130913 0x8096100 in lookup_symbol (name=0x85759a8
"mainWindowWidget__C14VkSimpleWindow",
    block=0x863ac6c, namespace=VAR_NAMESPACE, is_a_field_of_this=0x0, symtab=0x0)
    at symtab.c:595
#130914 0x8096100 in lookup_symbol (name=0x85759a8
"mainWindowWidget__C14VkSimpleWindow",
    block=0x863ac6c, namespace=VAR_NAMESPACE, is_a_field_of_this=0x0, symtab=0x0)
    at symtab.c:595
#130915 0x8096100 in lookup_symbol (name=0x85759a8
"mainWindowWidget__C14VkSimpleWindow",
    block=0x863ac6c, namespace=VAR_NAMESPACE, is_a_field_of_this=0x0, symtab=0x0)
    at symtab.c:595
#130916 0x8096100 in lookup_symbol (name=0x85759a8
"mainWindowWidget__C14VkSimpleWindow",
    block=0x863ac6c, namespace=VAR_NAMESPACE, is_a_field_of_this=0x0, symtab=0x0)
    at symtab.c:595
#130917 0x8096100 in lookup_symbol (name=0x85759a8
"mainWindowWidget__C14VkSimpleWindow",
    block=0x0, namespace=VAR_NAMESPACE, is_a_field_of_this=0x0, symtab=0x0) at
symtab.c:595






#130918 0x80982e9 in search_symbols (
regexp=0x83ab470 "main",

kind=FUNCTIONS_NAMESPACE,
    nfiles=0


, files=0x0, matches=0xbfffdab4) at symtab.c:2555





#130919 0x813153c in gdb_search (clientData=0x8131344, interp=0x8358b58, objc=5,
    objv=0x83597d4) at ./gdbtk/generic/gdbtk-cmds.c:1618
#130920 0x8130750 in wrapped_call (opaque_args=0xbfffdbf0)
    at ./gdbtk/generic/gdbtk-cmds.c:573
#130921 0x80d5d96 in catch_errors (func=0x8130738 <wrapped_call>, args=0xbfffdbf0,
    errstring=0x82b1e60 "", mask=6) at top.c:485
#130922 0x8130671 in call_wrapper (clientData=0x8131344, interp=0x8358b58, objc=5,
    objv=0x83597d4) at ./gdbtk/generic/gdbtk-cmds.c:503
#130923 0x823f5dd in TclExecuteByteCode (interp=0x8358b58, codePtr=0x85222d8)
    at ./../generic/tclExecute.c:955
#130924 0x8227529 in Tcl_EvalObj (interp=0x8358b58, objPtr=0x8474c18)
    at ./../generic/tclBasic.c:2645
#130925 0x825ba71 in TclObjInterpProc (clientData=0x83cc060, interp=0x8358b58, objc=1,

    objv=0x83597d0) at ./../generic/tclProc.c:996
#130926 0x823f5dd in TclExecuteByteCode (interp=0x8358b58, codePtr=0x85295c8)
    at ./../generic/tclExecute.c:955
#130927 0x8227529 in Tcl_EvalObj (interp=0x8358b58, objPtr=0x845e3e0)
    at ./../generic/tclBasic.c:2645
#130928 0x8198718 in Itcl_EvalMemberCode (interp=0x8358b58, mfunc=0x84d4398,
    member=0x84d43b0, contextObj=0x0, objc=1, objv=0x83597cc)
    at /data/inst/insight+dejagnu-20010106/itcl/itcl/generic/itcl_methods.c:1029
#130929 0x819916f in Itcl_ExecProc (clientData=0x84d4398, interp=0x8358b58, objc=1,
    objv=0x83597cc)
    at /data/inst/insight+dejagnu-20010106/itcl/itcl/generic/itcl_methods.c:1605
#130930 0x823f5dd in TclExecuteByteCode (interp=0x8358b58, codePtr=0x85b4ff0)
    at ./../generic/tclExecute.c:955
#130931 0x8227529 in Tcl_EvalObj (interp=0x8358b58, objPtr=0x8474798)
    at ./../generic/tclBasic.c:2645
#130932 0x825ba71 in TclObjInterpProc (clientData=0x844bb30, interp=0x8358b58, objc=1,

---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
    objv=0x83597c8) at ./../generic/tclProc.c:996
#130933 0x823f5dd in TclExecuteByteCode (interp=0x8358b58, codePtr=0x85adf38)
    at ./../generic/tclExecute.c:955
#130934 0x8227529 in Tcl_EvalObj (interp=0x8358b58, objPtr=0x84379d0)
    at ./../generic/tclBasic.c:2645
#130935 0x822730e in Tcl_Eval (interp=0x8358b58, string=0x82b2b92 "gdbtk_tcl_preloop")

    at ./../generic/tclBasic.c:2453
#130936 0x81356f8 in tk_command_loop () at ./gdbtk/generic/gdbtk-hooks.c:367
#130937 0x8082566 in captured_command_loop (data=0x0) at main.c:104
#130938 0x80d5d96 in catch_errors (func=0x808254c <captured_command_loop>, args=0x0,
    errstring=0x8268733 "", mask=6) at top.c:485
#130939 0x8082f5f in captured_main (data=0xbffff8f0) at main.c:749
#130940 0x80d5d96 in catch_errors (func=0x8082594 <captured_main>, args=0xbffff8f0,
    errstring=0x8268733 "", mask=6) at top.c:485
#130941 0x8082f8b in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff964) at main.c:761
#130942 0x4016dbfc in __libc_start_main (main=0x8082f64 <main>, argc=2,
ubp_av=0xbffff964,
    init=0x8080d4c <_init>, fini=0x82685cc <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000d674 <_dl_fini>,
    stack_end=0xbffff95c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:118
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Thanks
Barry