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Re: Bug#421270: gdb: fails to debug multithread programs



reassign 421270 linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64
thanks

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:59:15PM +0400, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> I have tried to use both 'stable' and 'unstable' versions of gdb with
> the same result. I suspect that the problem has something to do with
> -amd64 kernel (linux-image-2.6-amd64_2.6.18+6_i386.deb), because at the
> address 0xffffe000 (which mentioned in the above warning) is the address
> of linux-gate.so.1, which is a virtual DSO provided by the kernel.

You're using a 32-bit installation with a 64-bit kernel, right?

GDB doesn't work in this configuration.  It's a kernel bug; the ptrace
32-bit emulation does not handle some operations that normal i386
ptrace handles.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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