Re: gdb 6.3 giving a "Child process unexpectedly missing" error

[Allen Hopkins <allenh@eecs.berkeley.edu>]

I can only say that I'm in the same boat, and also mystified.
The error is the same:
> Program terminated with signal ?, Unknown signal.
> The program no longer exists.
> You can't do that without a process to debug.

Linux was just updated on my machine.  "uname -a" says this:
> Linux hig.eecs.berkeley.edu 2.6.9-1.11_FC2smp #1 SMP Sun Jan 2 16:19:13 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

-Allen Hopkins
UCBerkeley ERL

Mike Chrabaszcz wrote:
> I am running Fedora Core3 and have recently updated.  And now, I can no longer gdb run on any program.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Regards,
> MikeC.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> gdb ./test
> 
> GNU gdb 6.3
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
> 
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /test
> warning: Child process unexpectedly missing: No child processes
> 
> Program terminated with signal ?, Unknown signal.
> The program no longer exists.
> You can't do that without a process to debug.
> (gdb)
>