From kde-devel Wed May 26 20:10:38 1999 From: David Faure Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:10:38 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: gdb crashing : SOLVED ! (Re: kio is really REALLY slow right now) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92774883616861 On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:57:22PM +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote: > On Po, 24 kvì 1999, Steffen Hansen wrote : > >On Mon, 24 May 1999 pbrown@redhat.com wrote: > > > >> i would trace, but my gdb is segfaulting at the moment when loading > >> libmico2.2.6. :( I have to get and compile 4.18 I guess. > > > >So is mine (from RH6). Please let me know, if you figure out how to fix it > >;-) Funny thing is, that it only segfaults for larger programs. > >"gdb /bin/ls" works nicely. > > I also had problems with gdb segfaulting ( and not only gdb ) when I only > partially upgraded from RH 5.2 to RH 6.0 ( i.e. only egcs, glibc, .. ). After > also upgrading readline rpm it worked, so if you're also only upgrading you > might try it. Got it ! After several tries, and some private mails with Lubos, I got gdb to stop crashing. The answer is in fact really simple : upgrade your gdb (mine was gdb-4.17) to gdb-4.18. RH6 users can find it on http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ (gdb-4.18-2.i386.rpm) -- David FAURE david.faure@insa-lyon.fr, faure@kde.org http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/AEDI/dfaure/index.html KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today