From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20431 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2006 12:28:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 20422 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Jun 2006 12:28:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:28:37 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FsfLM-0005Ig-4G; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:28:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:33:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Christoph Bartoschek Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Cannot fetch general-purpose registers for thread 1342445920: generic error Message-ID: <20060620122832.GE20079@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Bartoschek , gdb@sourceware.org References: <200606191719.00530.bartoschek@or.uni-bonn.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200606191719.00530.bartoschek@or.uni-bonn.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-06/txt/msg00135.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:19:00PM +0200, Christoph Bartoschek wrote: > Hi, > > when I want to debug my application I often get the following error: > > Cannot fetch general-purpose registers for thread 1342445920: generic error > > After this message I have to detach gdb and reattach it. What could be the > problem? How can I avoid these errors? We have no idea - sorry, but you need to tell us a lot more about what you're doing. At a minimum: - Is this NPTL or LinuxThreads? - What architecture and kernel version are you using? - What were you doing when it happened? - What version of GDB are you using? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery