Bug 471819 - Assertion failed in gdb
Summary: Assertion failed in gdb
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdb
Version: 11
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jan Kratochvil
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-16 21:48 UTC by Vegard Nossum
Modified: 2009-07-09 09:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 6.8.50.20090302-31.fc11
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-07-02 05:44:35 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Program that crashes gdb (1.37 KB, text/plain)
2008-11-16 21:49 UTC, Vegard Nossum
no flags Details

Description Vegard Nossum 2008-11-16 21:48:17 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111217 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.4

$ gdb ./a.out 
GNU gdb Fedora (6.8-23.fc9)
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/vegard/programming/a.out 
thread_a started
thread_b started
watching /
watching /.bash_history
watching /selinux
watching /.autofsck
watching /var
watching /var/run
[New LWP 8106]
../../gdb/linux-nat.c:1296: internal-error: linux_nat_resume: Assertion `lp != NULL' failed.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Quit this debugging session? (y or n) n

../../gdb/linux-nat.c:1296: internal-error: linux_nat_resume: Assertion `lp != NULL' failed.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Create a core file of GDB? (y or n) n
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install glibc.i686
(gdb) 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. gcc -g inotify.c
2. gdb ./a.out
3. (gdb) run

Comment 1 Vegard Nossum 2008-11-16 21:49:13 UTC
Created attachment 323728 [details]
Program that crashes gdb

Comment 2 Vegard Nossum 2008-11-16 21:51:18 UTC
This may also be found in kernel log. I'm not sure it's really relevant, though.

a.out[7975]: segfault at 819d570 ip 065911c0 sp 0819d574 error 6 in libc-2.8.so[654e000+163000]
a.out[7992]: segfault at 9696500 ip 065911c0 sp 09696504 error 6 in libc-2.8.so[654e000+163000]
a.out[8163]: segfault at 8343330 ip 065911c0 sp 08343334 error 6 in libc-2.8.so[654e000+163000]
a.out[8167]: segfault at 277 ip 065b7b21 sp 09c1ffec error 4 in libc-2.8.so[654e000+163000]
a.out[8170]: segfault at 8877080 ip 065911c0 sp 08877084 error 6 in libc-2.8.so[654e000+163000]
a.out[8173]: segfault at 27d ip 065b7b21 sp 081edfec error 4 in libc-2.8.so[654e000+163000]
a.out[8176]: segfault at 8a9a0f0 ip 065911c0 sp 08a9a0f4 error 6 in libc-2.8.so[654e000+163000]
a.out[8179]: segfault at 8ee6210 ip 065911c0 sp 08ee6214 error 6 in libc-2.8.so[654e000+163000]
a.out[8182]: segfault at 1eb ip 065b7b21 sp 09ea7fec error 4 in libc-2.8.so[654e000+163000]
a.out[8185]: segfault at 9a142c0 ip 065911c0 sp 09a142c4 error 6 in libc-2.8.so[654e000+163000]

Comment 3 Vegard Nossum 2008-11-16 22:08:07 UTC
Seems that problem is related to clone() call. I think that ftw() uses more than 4096 bytes of the stack. If I increase this number to 64k, the program does not crash. But I don't know if gdb would still crash if we triggered another segmentation fault that was unrelated to ftw() overflowing the stack..

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 03:17:21 UTC
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Comment 5 Tim Scofield 2009-06-26 21:40:34 UTC
Bug still exists on Fedora 11

from dmesg
a.out[8070]: segfault at 5ffad8 ip 00000036e6444cf4 sp 00000000005ffae0 error 6 in libc-2.10.1.so[36e6400000+164000]


gdb -v
GNU gdb (GDB) Fedora (6.8.50.20090302-27.fc11)
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.

gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i586 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.0 20090506 (Red Hat 4.4.0-4) (GCC)

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-06-29 10:10:50 UTC
gdb-6.8.50.20090302-31.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdb-6.8.50.20090302-31.fc11

Comment 7 Jan Kratochvil 2009-06-29 10:13:07 UTC
Upstream post:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-06/msg00802.html

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2009-06-29 20:31:45 UTC
gdb-6.8.50.20090302-32.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdb-6.8.50.20090302-32.fc11

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2009-06-30 21:24:33 UTC
gdb-6.8.50.20090302-31.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gdb'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-7071

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2009-07-02 05:44:30 UTC
gdb-6.8.50.20090302-32.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2009-07-02 05:48:40 UTC
gdb-6.8.50.20090302-31.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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