From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21782 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2006 12:24:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 21774 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Sep 2006 12:24:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.avalus.com (HELO shed.alex.org.uk) (195.177.253.212) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:24:55 +0000 Received: from [192.168.100.31] (host-212-18-243-153.static.mailbox.co.uk [212.18.243.153]) by shed.alex.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D349BC2DA3; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:24:51 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <44F82684.2010404@alex.org.uk> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:24:00 -0000 From: Alex Bligh User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Simmons , bartoschek@or.uni-bonn.de, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Cannot fetch general-purpose registers for thread 1342445920: generic error References: <44F77934.3000305@oracle.com> <20060901002026.GA22921@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20060901002026.GA22921@nevyn.them.org> Cc: Alex Bligh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2006-09/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> [New Thread 1079315376 (LWP 31427)] >> Couldn't get registers: No such process. >> " >> >> This is probably a timing related bug in the implementation of GDB. >> When debugging programs that spawn threads using back to back gdb >> sessions, some runs will allow one to do debugging, and some runs won't. > > Sorry, but this is basically useless as a bug report. If you would > like GDB to be more reliable debugging your applications, you need > to provide us with enough information to reproduce and diagnose the > problem. If you do, I'll be glad to take a look at it as soon as > time permits. And for what it's worth, the 2 bugs I was seeing (one of which had the same symptoms as the above) Daniel seems to have fixed (the latter is AIUI awaiting commit to CVS). Alex