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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: Hmm...
To: JOHN@gab.unt.edu (John Booth)
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 08:22:17 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <308E8F5726@gab.unt.edu> from "John Booth" at Jul 7, 95 11:01:34 pm
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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As John Booth wrote:
> 
> I know this may be off topic, but find_solib isn't a function used
> in this program and I didn't find it in /usr/lib when I did a
> strings *|grep find_solib.
> 
> I guess I'm just lost as to what the find_solib error is.  Is this a
> gdb error message, or something that was supposed to fail within the
> program.
> 
> MudGod4000@Ulantris:gdb ../src/merc merc.core
> Core was generated by `merc'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> find_solib: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error

I think it's a gdb internal function, and not primarily related to the
problem that caused your core.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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