Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:09:32 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Subject: Re: Trouble with GDB and specific app on 7.0-CURRENT.... Message-ID: <200710080209.33529.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <470961E4.8060700@computer.org> References: <46FC8079.6030304@computer.org> <b1fa29170710071544v5fc0a1eer9b35147b2824be3e@mail.gmail.com> <470961E4.8060700@computer.org>
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On Monday 08 October 2007 00:47:00 Eric Schuele wrote: > On 10/07/2007 17:44, Kip Macy wrote: >> On 9/27/07, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> wrote: >>> On 09/28/2007 00:12, Steve Kargl wrote: >>>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:58:35PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: >>>>> On 09/27/2007 23:29, Steve Kargl wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:18:01PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: >>>>>>> Has anyone seen behavior like this? What else can I provide >>>>>>> that might help diagnose this? >>>>>> >>>>>> Are you by any chance using tcsh as your shell? >>>>> >>>>> heh... Yes, as a matter of fact. How is that affecting me? I've >>>>> always used tcsh and not had these troubles. >>>> >>>> Signal handling in tcsh is broken, and one manifestation of >>>> the problem is the behavior you're seeing with gdb. I've >>>> repeatedly asked to have the 6.15.0 version of tcsh backed >>>> out of src/ to the previously working 6.14.0 version, but no >>>> one who can affect such a change seems to think a default user >>>> shell with broken signal handling is a problem. The only >>>> workaround that I've found is "setenv SHELL sh" prior to >>>> executing gdb. >>> >>> Hmm... yeah.. I found the bug report after you mentioned tcsh. >>> However changing that var has no effect for me. In fact using sh >>> as my shell makes no difference either. >>> >>> Maybe I should rollback my tcsh and see what happens? >> >> You need to actually execute a different shell. Changing the >> variable isn't going to help. > > I did execute a different shell. Tried several in fact. I'm not sure it will help, but you might want to give the patch in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115469 a try.
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