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From: Matteo Fortini <m.fortini@selcomgroup•com>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: gdbserver not working with pthreads
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:26:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D39A7F.9090301@selcomgroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D20FCC.6070602@selcomgroup.com>

I answer to myself: the cvs version of gdbserver works properly, so I 
guess the issue was solved very recently.

M

Matteo Fortini ha scritto:
> I'm using gdbserver & gdb-cross built on OpenEmbedded, both versions 
> 6.6 and 6.8 on FSL kernel 2.6.24.6 with an MPC5121 cpu, glibc 2.6.1
>
> Gdb on the target is working properly, and can debug threads the usual 
> way.
>
> When debugging with gdbserver/gdb the debugger loses control of the 
> threads. I did set the sysroot variable right, and I don't get the ld 
> not found error message.
> Basically, I cannot step into pthread_create, without losing control, 
> with the software not running and gdb going timeout. Sometimes the 
> gdbserver shell prints out "ptrace(): pid not found", or I get E01 
> reply on the gdb-cross. Putting breakpoints into threads works sometimes.
> My ultimate goal would be to make it work with Eclipse, but it's a 
> long way from having it working with such a system.
>
> I attach the simple software I'm using to test it.
>
> I also tried setting the target architecture to values other than 
> powerpc:common, but it didn't help.
>
> Thank you for any clue,
> Matteo
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-19 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-18  8:22 gdbserver not working with pthreads Matteo Fortini
2008-09-19 12:26 ` Matteo Fortini [this message]
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2008-09-18 16:37 Sugathan, Rupesh

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