From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: OpenSSH crashes - able to repeat the cause Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:02:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20010122224840.D1408@cobold.wirespeed.com> <20010123160000.B1040@cobold.wirespeed.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg01263.html Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:01:12AM +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > I'm trying as hard as I can with the resources I have available to > > debug, by giving as much detail on the problem which has not otherwise > > been provided, in the hopes that they will spark an 'aha!' reaction > > from someone. > > > > Would compiling id (the program which fails) from source with -g be a > > useful step? Presumably not, because the crash goes in to the Win2k > > debugger directly -- what would be required to get symbols available > > for debugging at that point? I have a bit of experience debugging C > > You need a non stripped version of the Cygwin DLL and gdb. The > non stripped version is easily produced by downloading the sources > from cvs as descibed on http://www.cygwin.com/cvs.html and following > the directions given on the same side. I've built a non-stripped version, but am still waiting for advice on how to get gdb involved when the problem occurs -- I've tried various hacks with inetd.conf and /usr/bin/id to get it involved, so far without success -- suggestions welcomed. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple