On 21.9.2004, at 16:01, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> #0 0xb7ebdee9 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 >> #1 0xb7fcbedc in ?? () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 .. > You are using a C library which was built without frame pointers and > shipped without debug info. If this is a Debian system, install the > Debian packages of gdb and libc6-dbg and let us know if it's still > there. It does seem to work, but I'm not really happy with that solution either. I didn't need to use libc6-dbg with 2.4 kernel and using it seems to be a bit of a pain. It's a bit strange that raise(SIGABRT) works, kill(getpid(), SIGABRT) works, etc. It's only abort() that's the problem. But if it's only a libc problem I'll submit a Debian bugreport.