Bug 145513

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Description of problem:
I've installed the debuginfo rpm for cvs in an attempt to debug an
issues with it. I cannot use all gdb functionality with it however.
It complains about the debug symbols, even though they seem to be in
the cvs.debug file (checked with 'objdump -x -s'). I can use tab
completion for symbols, set breakpoints on symbols, but cannot use
list on a symbol (even after setting the source dir). Also gdb keeps
complaining about missing debugging symbols...

[vga@edge ~]$ rpm -qa | grep cvs
cvs-debuginfo-1.11.17-4
cvs-1.11.17-4

[vga@edge zuzu]$ gdb /usr/bin/cvs
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.1post-1.20040607.43rh)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...(no debugging
symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library
"/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) b fin<TAB>
finaladd                   find_filesdoneproc         find_type
finalwrite                 find_function              findmaxrev
find_and_hash_each_line    find_function_last_match   findnode
find_change                find_function_last_search  findnode_fn
find_checkedout_proc       find_hunk                  findslash
find_data_static           find_identical_ends        findtag
find_dirent_proc           find_ignproc               finish_output
find_dirs                  find_rcs                   
find_fileproc              find_reverse_change        
(gdb) b find_dirs 
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8066fb2
(gdb) run co prj
Starting program: /usr/bin/cvs co prj
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...cvs checkout: Updating prj

Breakpoint 1, 0x08066fb2 in find_dirs ()
(gdb) cont
Continuing.
cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot open current directory: Value too large
for defined data type

Program exited with code 01.
(gdb) list find_dirs
No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
(gdb) dir /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/cvs-1.11.17/
Source directories searched: /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/cvs-1.11.17:$cdir:$cwd
(gdb) list find_dirs
No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.


Ignore the cvs issue; cvs is writing to an experimental NFS server,
which is causing the checkout to abort. All gdb stuff is on ext3, so
it has no reason to fail. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdb-6.1post-1.20040607.43

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See above.

Additional info: