Trying to run firefox under gdb with the debug symbols installed appears to result in an out-of-memory situation on my DualG5 with 3.5GB ram, I’m afraid.
Perhaps someone else has a system with more memory, or set up better than mine, that could help.
Ken
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$ gdb firefox
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Reading symbols from firefox...
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/4b/b6e1779513b3b7402680ba3c0652341bfc3155.debug...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/firefox
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/powerpc64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Killed
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tail of dmesg:
[ 858.582364] [ 1641] 1000 1641 56530 44030 493568 9100 0 gdb
[ 858.582372] [ 1645] 1000 1645 3750 64 49152 192 0 firefox
[ 858.582379] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-2.scope,task=gdb,pid=1641,uid=1000
[ 858.582447] Out of memory: Killed process 1641 (gdb) total-vm:3617920kB, anon-rss:2817920kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:482kB oom_score_adj:0