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From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
To: Hushan Jia <hushan.jia@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb symbol problem
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ac60eac0912261936q49f50cf6ofabf2c56055621af@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e38b6a940912261816k6f16227by96d16b315715b695@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Hushan Jia <hushan.jia@gmail.com> wrote:

> I invoke gdb like this:
>
> [hushan@hushan-t linux-2.6.31.3]$ gdb ./vmlinux

Oh, you are not debugging a regular application. You probably should
have mentioned that in your initial message.

> (gdb) target remote /dev/pts/5

What is on the "other end" of /dev/pts/5 ?

>> My crystal ball tells me you didn't supply GDB with the executable you
>> are running.

My crystal ball now tells me that you are stopped in a loadable kernel
module. AFAIU, GDB has no way to automatically find what is loaded
where in the target kernel.

You might want to read:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kgdb-light/
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-01/msg00037.html

Cheers,
-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov


  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-27  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-23  4:48 Hushan Jia
2009-12-26  8:55 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-12-27  2:16   ` Hushan Jia
2009-12-27  3:36     ` Paul Pluzhnikov [this message]
2009-12-27  3:45       ` Hushan Jia
2009-12-28  2:38         ` Jie Zhang
2009-12-28  4:14           ` Hushan Jia
2009-12-28  4:22             ` Jie Zhang
     [not found]               ` <e38b6a940912272109i48efc394u9985327575437f0f@mail.gmail.com>
2009-12-28  6:44                 ` Jie Zhang
2009-12-28  7:37                   ` Hui Zhu
2009-12-28 10:28                     ` Hushan Jia

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