From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115 Description of problem: gdb has internal problem when running mozilla-bin 1.2.1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1 2. gdb mozilla-bin 3. run Actual Results: gdb has internal error and mozilla freezes up Expected Results: I get a back trace when trying to print a page that always causes mozilla to crash Additional info: mozilla freezes up when I try to attach gdb to the running process as well
Do you still have problems with the latest rawhide version of gdb?
gdb-5.3post-0.20021129.18 When trying to debug mozilla (which worked like charm back in RH7.2 and 8.0), i now get this instead: $ ./mozilla -g -d gdb ./run-mozilla.sh -g -d gdb ./mozilla-bin MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:./plugins:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.7b DISPLAY=:0.0 XPSERVERLIST=:33 DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.7b LIBRARY_PATH=.:./components:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.7b SHLIB_PATH=.:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.7b LIBPATH=.:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.7b ADDON_PATH=. MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin MOZ_TOOLKIT= moz_debug=1 moz_debugger=gdb /usr/bin/gdb ./mozilla-bin -x /tmp/mozargs2517 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.3post-0.20021129.18rh) Copyright 2003 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"... (gdb) run Starting program: /home/dark/MOZ/TREE1/mozilla/dist/bin/mozilla-bin [New Thread 1078365472 (LWP 2523)] /home/dark/.themes/PrettyOkayish/gtk/gtkrc:35: error: unexpected identifier `mark_type1', expected character `}' [New Thread 1096821552 (LWP 2524)] [New Thread 1116957488 (LWP 2525)] [New Thread 1125350192 (LWP 2526)] [New Thread 1133742896 (LWP 2527)] [New Thread 1142135600 (LWP 2528)] [New Thread 1150528304 (LWP 2529)] [New Thread 1158921008 (LWP 2530)] [New Thread 1167313712 (LWP 2531)] [Thread 1158921008 (LWP 2530) exited] [New Thread 1175706416 (LWP 2533)] [New Thread 1184099120 (LWP 2534)] [New Thread 1192491824 (LWP 2535)] Couldn't get registers: No such process. (gdb)
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