abrt 1.1.1 detected a crash. architecture: i686 Attached file: backtrace cmdline: gdb -batch -ex 'set debug-file-directory /usr/lib/debug:/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug' -ex 'file /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0/thunderbird-bin' -ex 'core-file /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1276164960-8012/coredump' -ex 'thread apply all backtrace 2048 full' -ex 'info sharedlib' -ex 'print (char*)__abort_msg' -ex 'print (char*)__glib_assert_msg' -ex 'info registers' -ex disassemble component: gdb crash_function: raise executable: /usr/bin/gdb global_uuid: 75ee644048798eca0bcc2bd9936188ec926f2bdc kernel: 2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.PAE package: gdb-7.1-24.fc13 rating: 4 reason: Process /usr/bin/gdb was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT) release: Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
Created attachment 422878 [details] File: backtrace
GDB tries to run pex_run_in_environment("iconv -l") which aborts creating files in /tmp. GDB should be able to run even with readonly root filesystem.
Try this: diff --git a/gdb/charset.c b/gdb/charset.c index 8a9b5ad..e9fa6ab 100644 --- a/gdb/charset.c +++ b/gdb/charset.c @@ -800,7 +800,8 @@ find_charset_names (void) args[1] = "-l"; args[2] = NULL; /* Note that we simply ignore errors here. */ - if (!pex_run_in_environment (child, PEX_SEARCH | PEX_STDERR_TO_STDOUT, + if (!pex_run_in_environment (child, (PEX_SEARCH | PEX_STDERR_TO_STDOUT + | PEX_USE_PIPES), "iconv", args, environ_vector (iconv_env), NULL, NULL, &err)) {
Posted upstream, PEX_USE_PIPES is OK, pex_run_in_environment is not, thanks: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-06/msg00537.html
gdb-7.1-32.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdb-7.1-32.fc13
gdb-7.1-32.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.