Thursday, April 10, 2008

GDB debugger crashing...

Don't you just love it when you go to debug some crashing process and the debugger itself crashes?

bash-3.00# /usr/local/bin/gdb /foo/myprogram /foo/core
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This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.9"...
Core was generated by `/foo/dagent'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libsocket.so.1...done.
Bus Error (core dumped)
bash-3.00#

At least it generated a core file.... Next stop:

bash-3.00# /usr/local/bin/gdb /usr/local/bin/gdb ./core