From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15916 invoked by alias); 26 Jun 2007 12:11:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 15908 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jun 2007 12:11:09 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:11:04 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CDC9829A; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:11:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2404998299; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:11:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I39sN-0005p1-6E; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:10:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:11:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Bram Kuijper Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: "failed to find valid object file", but which object file? (using static libraries) Message-ID: <20070626121031.GA22314@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bram Kuijper , gdb@sourceware.org References: <4680D290.8020303@rug.nl> <20070626112126.GA19752@caradoc.them.org> <4680F947.9000700@rug.nl> <20070626113632.GA20208@caradoc.them.org> <4680FDDE.9030607@rug.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4680FDDE.9030607@rug.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-06/txt/msg00299.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 01:51:58PM +0200, Bram Kuijper wrote: > > No, you should figure out why GDB has failed :-) You'd have to debug > > it, though. The error message indicates that either reading from > > memory has failed or else the image found there was surprising > > somehow. If you run with "set debug target 1", do any errors show up? > > it was quite some output, so I put it on pastebin.com: > > http://pastebin.com/936686 child:target_xfer_partial (1, (null), 0xbff40994, 0x0, 0xffffe000, 52) = -1 target_terminal_ours () Failed to read a valid object file image from memory. 0xffffe000 is the traditional address of the vDSO. I don't know why you couldn't read from it; you may wish to report this to Ubuntu. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery