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From: Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Issue with gdb attaching to a process
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I'm having trouble attaching to a process on my FreeBSD system.  I've never
heard of this error:

FreeBSD belle.0lsen.net 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #1: Mon Oct 23 13:04:36 PDT 2006     root@belle.0lsen.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BELLE  i386

GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
...
(gdb) attach 6300
Attaching to process 6300
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/libgdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:1443:
internal-error: legacy_fetch_link_map_offsets called without legacy
link_map support enabled.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Quit this debugging session? (y or n) y

/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/libgdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:1443:
internal-error: legacy_fetch_link_map_offsets called without legacy
link_map support enabled.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Create a core file of GDB? (y or n) y

-Clint