From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jan 26 16:10:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA04777 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:10:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA04762; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:10:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:10:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701270010.QAA04762@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: john hood Subject: misc/2098: gdb problem in 2.1.6 Reply-To: john hood Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR misc/2098; it has been noted by GNATS. From: john hood To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: misc/2098: gdb problem in 2.1.6 Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:07:16 -0500 (EST) John Brann writes: > Hi, > > I've just moved my laptop to 2.1.6. When I try to invoke gdb I get: > > ld.so: Undefined symbol "_vasprintf" called from gdb:gdb at 0x92344 > > This happens both with the installed copy and the one on the CD live > filesystem. I'm guessing that one of my system shared libraries is hosed, > any idea which one? You installed the compatibility libraries, right? I had this problem too; turns out that one of the compat2x libraries stomps on /usr/lib/libc.so.2.2 with an incompatible(!) library missing _vasprintf. The fix is easy: restore that library from the bin distribution. [I've tagged this onto a related PR.] --jh -- John Hood cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us Predictably, they all eventually wandered away, rubbing their bruises and brushing mud out of their hair. Some went off to work for the ESA, launching much smaller rockets into low orbits, while others elected to sit on their front porches drinking Jim Beam from the bottle and launching bottle rockets from the empties. [Jordan Hubbard] --SAA20077.854323193/smoke.marlboro.vt.us--