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To: raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Raoul Golan)
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Subject: Re: gdb problem? libraries, perhaps? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Oct 1995 11:29:24 +1000."
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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 19:26:54 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
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>A further update on that (now resolved) problem regarding
>gdb crashes.
>
>A similar scenario on SunOS 4.1.3 will not cause gdb to crash.
>I have zsh as my default shell, I add an "exec /bin/sh" to my
>.zshrc, I try to run gdb and I get no problems.  In fact,
>.zshrc does *not* get executed by the shell forked by
>gdb, even though I clearly have my SHELL environment variable
>set to zsh. 
>
>On FreeBSD, on the other hand, I have csh as my default, and 
>"exec /usr/local/bin/zsh" on my .cshrc.  With this setup gdb
>crashes since gdb's fork executes .cshrc.
>
>Something's different about the two gdb's, but I'm not sure 
>what.  
>
>Raoul

Did you recently upgrade your kernel without rebuilding gdb?  The
proc structure was changed a little while back and you will need
to rebuild gdb for it to pick it up.  You may have to rebuild
libkvm too.

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM
  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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