Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:50:22 GMT From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/77818: GDB locks in wait4() when running applications Message-ID: <200502210350.j1L3oMTn044944@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/77818; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/77818: GDB locks in wait4() when running applications Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:12:45 +1030 --3O1VwFp74L81IIeR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 20 February 2005 at 19:15:01 -0600, Sean Farley wrote: > >> Synopsis: GDB locks in wait4() when running applications > >> Description: > > Whenever I run an application through the system's GDB, GDB locks in > wait4(). It does not matter if the application has debugging > information or not. /bin/ls will lock GDB up for me until I type > Ctrl-C. Is this an SMP system? > Two systems of mine exhibit this behavior. One has the binary > nvidia driver with a lot of changes in libmap.conf. The other is > headless without a libmap.conf. I've found something similar with SMP systems only. It wasn't as consistent as the way you describe, and I was able to work around the problem by turning off all but one CPU. See kern/77537 for more details. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --3O1VwFp74L81IIeR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCGVi1IubykFB6QiMRAn1DAKCHmVcC9GzWgPlsgJTQ7CgfvZ/fcQCgiBfS oTVYzEkdypz0f8S2Hbe5iY4= =AIOY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3O1VwFp74L81IIeR--
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