Threads GDB 5.2 Linux Help Needed

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:16:07AM -0700, Glenn Chisholm wrote:
> G'Day,
>         I am currently working on a system that has gdb 5.2 when I debug a 
> threaded program it acts like I have no thread support. However if I take 
> the exact same gdb binary and the same program onto another host it works.
> 
>         Now I realize that I could be hitting 1000 different things 
> machine hopping however here it is on a working system:
> 
> > ./gdb a.out
> GNU gdb 5.2
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /local/gchishol/gdb/bin/a.out
> [New Thread 1024 (LWP 15070)]
> [New Thread 2049 (LWP 15079)]
> [New Thread 1026 (LWP 15080)]
> [New Thread 2051 (LWP 15081)]
> 
> Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
> 
> Here it is on the non working system:
> 
> # ./gdb a.out
> GNU gdb 5.2
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /local/local1/core_dir/a.out
> 
> Program received signal SIG32, Real-time event 32.
> 0x2585ede6 in sigsuspend () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb)
> 
> For the life of me I can not work out what is happening. The libthread_db 
> seems to be available on both hosts. When I strace I can see the non 
> working system open the library on both hosts. In this case it is the 
> pthread.c from the gdb testsuite. The gdb is 5.2 built on the working 
> system, the other does not have a compiler. Am I missing a library? A clue?
> 
> Can some one please point me at a starting point to get this working? Where 
> should I look what libraries should I check? What debug can I watch? Anyone 
> got a beer?

Are you using the same library versions?  I suspect you have a bad
glibc version on one host.  If you have ltrace available, see if the
dlsym() calls in GDB fail (or use GDB on GDB to determine this).

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