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Re: glib errors with latest gdb


On Aug 13 16:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 13 10:28, Ken Brown wrote:
> > I'm getting errors with the latest gdb when trying to debug programs that
> > depend on glib.  Here's an example, run from an xterm window:
> > 
> > $ gdb /usr/bin/gvim
> > GNU gdb (GDB) 7.8
> > [...]
> > Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gvim...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> > (gdb) r
> > Starting program: /usr/bin/gvim
> > [New Thread 4860.0x1b44]
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/bin/cyggobject-2.0-0.dll-gdb.py", line
> > 9, in <module>
> >     from gobject import register
> >   File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/gobject.py", line 3, in <module>
> >     import gdb.backtrace
> > ImportError: No module named backtrace
> 
> I see this error, too.  Unfortunately I'm not a python guru so this
> is rather opaque to me.  gdb itself doesn't provide a gdb.backtrace
> method, afaics.
> 
> However, despite this message, gvim starts normally.  And emacs-nox as
> well as many other CLI applications can be started just fine, too.
> 
> But GDB hangs with emacs-X11 for some reason, even if I disable the
> python modules.  From a quick GDB session it's not clear why this occurs :(

I reported the problem upstream in a bugzilla entry already handling
strange GDB hangs:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17247


Corinna

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