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Re: "Cannot find new threads" on Fedora 9, but not on CentOS 5 (?)

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: ajloft at umich dot edu
Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:52:06 -0400
Subject: Re: "Cannot find new threads" on Fedora 9, but not on CentOS 5 (?)
References: <49065BBD.3050800@gmail.com> <8ac60eac0810271741h135f077bj2c3fcd7391e89ed7@mail.gmail.com> <4906615E.50606@gmail.com> <8ac60eac0810271836saf8c28pb1392b77c7926be0@mail.gmail.com> <4907B915.5040101@gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:15:01PM -0400, Andrew Lofthouse wrote:
> It looks like something to do with gdb not finding the symbols for  
> /lib/libpthread.so.0.  Does this have something to do with ldd not  
> listing libpthread as a shared lib?  Or perhaps something with libpthread 
> really being stripped (but file shows otherwise)?

Yeah - something having to do with a library, probably libgthread,
dynamically loading it.  Sounds like it might be a bug in GDB.
Dynamically loading the thread library is unusual; it also stresses
bits of GLIBC that are not ordinarily used.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

References:
- "Cannot find new threads" on Fedora 9, but not on CentOS 5 (?)
  - From: Andrew Lofthouse
- Re: "Cannot find new threads" on Fedora 9, but not on CentOS 5 (?)
  - From: Paul Pluzhnikov
- Re: "Cannot find new threads" on Fedora 9, but not on CentOS 5 (?)
  - From: Andrew Lofthouse

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