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Re: Crash in gdbserver on ppc405 - what vintage of libthread_db is recommended?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+ at andrew dot cmu dot edu>
- To: Dan Kegel <dkegel at ixiacom dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:24:22 -0500
- Subject: Re: Crash in gdbserver on ppc405 - what vintage of libthread_db is recommended?
- References: <3D30B11B.5070005@ixiacom.com>
I'll reiterate - I have about 99% confidence that your crash comes from
mismatched host and target libraries. This is far and away the most
frequent cause of problems, since libthread_db is not at all capable of
handling errors in mismatched symbol lookup.
I'm still trying to figure out ways to detect this. I'm almost leaning
towards using libelf or a simple clone to take checksums of on-disk
.text sections...
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 04:00:43PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I tried gdbserver on the ppc405 on a large multithreaded C++ program
> compiled with g++3.0.2 or so. All I did was 'break main'
> and 'cont', and gdbserver crashed. So I updated to last week's
> snapshot (ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/snapshots/current/gdb+dejagnu-weekly-CVS-20020709.tar.bz2),
> built gdbserver for debugging, and reproduced the problem while debugging
> gdbserver. Here's what popped up. Looks like the call to
> td_ta_thr_iter is bombing. I'm using the libthread_db from Hard Hat 2.0,
> dated about a year ago; perhaps I need to use a newer version?
> Or is gdbserver itself misbehaving?
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x10008844 in linux_read_memory (memaddr=1275058749, myaddr=0x7fefeda8 "",
> len=2094805880) at ../../../src/gdb/gdbserver/linux-low.c:1153
> 1153 = (PTRACE_XFER_TYPE *) alloca (count * sizeof (PTRACE_XFER_TYPE));
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x10008844 in linux_read_memory (memaddr=1275058749, myaddr=0x7fefeda8 "",
> len=2094805880) at ../../../src/gdb/gdbserver/linux-low.c:1153
> #1 0x10005494 in read_inferior_memory (memaddr=1275058749, myaddr=0x7fefeda8 "",
> len=2094805880) at ../../../src/gdb/gdbserver/target.c:63
> #2 0x10009740 in ps_pdread (ph=0x1001c850, addr=1275058749, buf=0x7fefeda8,
> size=2094805880) at ../../../src/gdb/gdbserver/proc-service.c:112
> #3 0x0ffdd000 in td_thr_setgregs () from /lib/libthread_db.so.1
> #4 0x0ffdd1c4 in td_thr_tsd () from /lib/libthread_db.so.1
> #5 0x1000958c in thread_db_find_new_threads ()
> at ../../../src/gdb/gdbserver/thread-db.c:308
> #6 0x10009650 in thread_db_init () at ../../../src/gdb/gdbserver/thread-db.c:334
> #7 0x10008bb8 in linux_look_up_symbols () at ../../../src/gdb/gdbserver/linux-low.c:1226
> #8 0x10003ef4 in handle_query (own_buf=0x1001eee8 "qSymbol::")
> at ../../../src/gdb/gdbserver/server.c:71
> #9 0x100042e8 in main (argc=3, argv=0x7ffffe84)
> at ../../../src/gdb/gdbserver/server.c:192
> #10 0x0feb0dbc in ngettext () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb)
>
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Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
MontaVista Software Carnegie Mellon University