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Re: "failed to find valid object file", but which object file? (using static libraries)
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 01:51:58PM +0200, Bram Kuijper wrote:
> > No, you should figure out why GDB has failed :-) You'd have to debug
> > it, though. The error message indicates that either reading from
> > memory has failed or else the image found there was surprising
> > somehow. If you run with "set debug target 1", do any errors show up?
>
> it was quite some output, so I put it on pastebin.com:
>
> http://pastebin.com/936686
child:target_xfer_partial (1, (null), 0xbff40994, 0x0, 0xffffe000, 52) = -1
target_terminal_ours ()
Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
0xffffe000 is the traditional address of the vDSO. I don't know why
you couldn't read from it; you may wish to report this to Ubuntu.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery