Re: [cooker-amd64] ddd problem solved?

[Jeremy Barnes]

On January 29, 2004 06:11 pm, Martin Jungowski [TU Munich] wrote:
> Already tried that, infact installing the 32-bit binary according to
> that archived thread and it did work - however that's what I said was
> crashing within seconds (by crashing I mean freezing). I had to install
> a bunch of 32-bit libraries as well (don't remember anymore what it was
> but I kept a log and uninstalled the 32-bit libraries afterwards) but
> like I said - it's useless if it freezes within a few seconds.
>
> The 64-bit version is still not working, neither the x86_64 Fedora
> binary nor the x86_64 gingin binary nor any other SRPM or
> AMD64-RPM/x86_64-RPM are working, all of'em SEGFAULTing :(

We had some problems with the lesstif RPMS, although the symptoms were 
different (not responding to keyboard/mouse I believe, I can't remember any 
more which one).  That was fixed by upgrading the lesstif 32bit RPMS... the 
ones which come with Mandrake 9.2/i586 do not work.

Have you verified that you can use GDB without DDD?  Most of the lockups in 
DDD tend to be when something happens to the slave GDB process, and DDD is 
blocked on a pipe waiting to read something from it.

Note again that I have had no success with GDB 5.3 on our Opteron, neither 
with the i586 nor amd64 RPM.  The best I have done was to build a 6.0 amd64 
RPM, which is useable although woefully unstable (it generally crashes the 
second time you try to run the binary, as soon as the first breakpoint or 
signal occurs).  As a result, I tend to debug on an Athlon under DDD, and use 
GDB by itself on the opteron (without DDD, as that takes too long to restart 
and run the program).

Cheers,
Jeremy