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Re: problem loading libpthread.so


On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:17:05PM -0700, Lucy Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I used GDB to debug an ELF core dump which was converted from a different
> formatted dump. However when I run GDB I get the following error:
> This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
> Core was generated by `vlio_test8'.
> Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.
> Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0...done.
> 
> warning: Unable to set global thread event mask: generic error
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)


> Does anyone know what may have caused the seg fault. I'm not very familiar
> with GDB at all. So if anyone has any guess or intuitions about the cause of
> this problem please share.

You need to get a newer version of GDB.  Check 5.2, from
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/, and see if that works better.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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