From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 8 00:41:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D1516A417 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 00:41:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.240.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7DFD13C45A for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 00:41:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACAE94D33C; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:09:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtps02.kuleuven.be (smtpshost02.kulnet.kuleuven.be [134.58.240.75]) by nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3FE4DA91; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:09:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kalimero.kotnet.org (kalimero.kotnet.org [10.4.16.222]) by smtps02.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662ABF3863; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:09:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kalimero.kotnet.org (kalimero.kotnet.org [127.0.0.1]) by kalimero.kotnet.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9809YBV009976; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:09:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) X-Kuleuven: This mail passed the K.U.Leuven mailcluster From: Tijl Coosemans To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:09:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <46FC8079.6030304@computer.org> <470961E4.8060700@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <470961E4.8060700@computer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710080209.33529.tijl@ulyssis.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by KULeuven Antivirus Cluster Cc: Kip Macy , Steve Kargl , Eric Schuele Subject: Re: Trouble with GDB and specific app on 7.0-CURRENT.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:41:03 -0000 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 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.