Re: corefiles/2151: gdb useless with core files

Re: corefiles/2151: gdb useless with core files

[drow]

Synopsis: gdb useless with core files

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: drow
State-Changed-When: Wed Jul 26 03:38:35 2006
State-Changed-Why:
    This turned out to be a corrupt core file.  Thanks for the report.

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Re: corefiles/2151: gdb useless with core files

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

The following reply was made to PR corefiles/2151; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: johna@onevista.com
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: corefiles/2151: gdb useless with core files
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:09:17 -0400

 On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:40:36PM -0000, johna@onevista.com wrote:
 > This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld".
 
 Why?  You almost certainly didn't want this.  Try i686-pc-linux-gnu.
 
 -- 
 Daniel Jacobowitz
 CodeSourcery

corefiles/2151: gdb useless with core files

[johna]

>Number:         2151
>Category:       corefiles
>Synopsis:       gdb useless with core files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul 25 21:48:02 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Adams
>Release:        gdb-6.5
>Organization:
>Environment:
linux 686
>Description:
gdb can't see core files

FLASH:/tmp # gdb -c core*
GNU gdb 6.5
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld".
"/tmp/core.nero.28435" is not a core dump: File format not recognized

FLASH:/tmp # file core*
core.nero.28435: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, SVR4-style, from 'nero'
>How-To-Repeat:
generate any core file
run gdb -c corefile
>Fix:
I wish
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: