From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27822 invoked by alias); 11 May 2004 14:21:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27055 invoked from network); 11 May 2004 14:20:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e34.co.us.ibm.com) (32.97.110.132) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 11 May 2004 14:20:37 -0000 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i4BEKbMS479694 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 10:20:37 -0400 Received: from austin.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id i4BEKaMV322744 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 08:20:36 -0600 Received: from lazy.austin.ibm.com (lazy.austin.ibm.com [9.53.94.97]) by austin.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4BEKZQC029406 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 09:20:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:21:00 -0000 From: Manoj Iyer X-X-Sender: manjo@lazy To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Zombie problem. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00068.txt.bz2 I am using GDB On sles 9 (uses NPTL) PowerPC 64bit, when I try to debug a multithreaded program and I see some threads marked zombie. Starting program: /tmp/xx_tbug64 [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 549757818752 (LWP 28542)] tf(0): begin tf(0): end [New Thread 549762013376 (zombie)] tf(1): begin tf(1): end [New Thread 549766211776 (zombie)] after create after join Program exited normally. (gdb) quit Can someone please give me any clue as to where I should start debugging this problem? or is there a patch available for this problem? Thanks Manoj Iyer