From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12186 invoked by alias); 18 Feb 2006 18:39:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 12146 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Feb 2006 18:39:49 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-151-205-111-177.ny325.east.verizon.net (HELO gatworks.com) (151.205.111.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:39:49 +0000 Received: (qmail 16721 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2006 18:37:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.37?) (192.168.0.37) by gatworks.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 2006 18:37:54 -0000 Message-ID: <43F769EB.2060703@gatworks.com> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:37:00 -0000 From: "U. George" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: why is "gdb /home/gat/JAVA/JDK16/jdk1.6.0/bin/java" so broken? References: <43F76720.3050903@gatworks.com> <20060218183315.GA25033@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20060218183315.GA25033@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00245.txt.bz2 Show me the 'funny'. It would be real neat to understand why libthread_db fails before surmising. Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:27:44PM -0500, U. George wrote: > >>After some 60min of running javasoft's java, the program finally dies of >>a segfault. I have been trying, and apparently for several years now, >>according to the gdb bug base, to get GDB to work with java & threads. >>Version 6.4 does not work any better. >>there is something wrong in libthread_db.so. I'm not yet willing to just >>replace the libs, as this may affect the 'heap' bug that shows itself >>randomly. >> >>So whats goin on with gdb? > > > Probably the JDK does something funny with threads that bypasses > libthread_db. >