Re: [cooker-amd64] ddd problem solved?

[Martin Jungowski [TU Munich]]

Am Fr, 2004-01-30 um 00.22 schrieb 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
Hi,

Now that you mention it, I do remember having some mouse/keyboard not
responding trouble with the 32-bit binary as well... IIRC I then
installed the i586 Cooker package which lead to already mentioned
problems with it freezing.
GDB does work fine (GNU gdb 6.0-2mdk (Mandrake Linux)), it's the AMD64
Cooker package (or contrib, not sure) and I have to debug using GDB so
far. Given that my only other PC around is my headless Debian server
hence I cannot run DDD on that one :(

I tried the Fedora x86_64 binary package yesterday, even installed
Fedora's lesstif but it still ain't working, DDD refuses to install
because of unsolved dependencies. I tried with --nodeps but of course it
ain't starting, can't find libXm.so.0. I'm about to give up and wait for
Mandrake to provide us with a running DDD package (it can't be that hard
since both, Redhat gingin AND Fedora x86_64 come with 64-bit DDD).

Thanks for your help ;)

-- 
Martin Jungowski
Technical University of Munich
Computer Science Faculty