When I try to run gdb (ys-devel/gdb-6.5-r1) it doesn't start and only prints the word Aborted to the command line. I have this same problem on two machines, one amd64 and one x86. If I try to run strace gdb I get this output: execve("/usr/bin/gdb", ["gdb"], [/* 56 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x827d000 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f2b000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=115448, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 115448, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f0e000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\343"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=267756, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 264004, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ecd000 mmap2(0xb7f05000, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x38) = 0xb7f05000 mmap2(0xb7f0d000, 1860, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f0d000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\3603\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=154476, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 147584, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ea8000 mmap2(0xb7ecb000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x22) = 0xb7ecb000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`\f\0\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=10144, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 12412, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ea4000 mmap2(0xb7ea6000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0xb7ea6000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300Y\1"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1184892, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1156476, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7d89000 mmap2(0xb7e9d000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x113) = 0xb7e9d000 mmap2(0xb7ea1000, 9596, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7ea1000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7d88000 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7d87000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7d876b0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0xb7e9d000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xb7f45000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb7f0e000, 115448) = 0 brk(0) = 0x827d000 brk(0x829e000) = 0x829e000 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, {ru_utime={0, 4000}, ru_stime={0, 0}, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2586, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7d67000 read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 131072) = 2586 read(3, "", 131072) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb7d67000, 131072) = 0 open("/usr/lib/locale/sl_SI/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=80, ...}) = 0 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/locale/sl_SI/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=59, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 59, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f2a000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/locale/sl_SI/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=178464, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 178464, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7d5b000 close(3) = 0 getcwd("/home/jlp/Download/firefox", 1024) = 27 getcwd("/home/jlp/Download/firefox", 1024) = 27 open("/usr/share/locale/sl_SI/LC_MESSAGES/gdb.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gdb.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 access("/home/jlp/.terminfo/x/xterm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/etc/terminfo/x/xterm", R_OK) = 0 open("/etc/terminfo/x/xterm", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 read(3, "\32\0010\0&\0\17\0\235\1&\5", 12) = 12 read(3, "xterm|xterm terminal emulator (X"..., 48) = 48 read(3, "\0\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\1\0"..., 38) = 38 read(3, "P\0\10\0\30\0\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377"..., 30) = 30 read(3, "\0\0\4\0\6\0\10\0\31\0\36\0&\0*\0.\0\377\3779\0J\0L\0P"..., 826) = 826 read(3, "\33[Z\0\7\0\r\0\33[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr\0\33[3g\0\33["..., 1318) = 1318 read(3, "\1\0\0\0\v\0\27\0\200\0", 10) = 10 read(3, "\1", 1) = 1 read(3, "\0", 1) = 1 read(3, "\377\377\0\0\7\0\16\0\25\0\34\0#\0*\0001\0008\0?\0\0\0"..., 46) = 46 read(3, "\33[1;2B\0\33[1;5B\0\33[1;6B\0\33[1;5D\0\33[1;"..., 128) = 128 close(3) = 0 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 ioctl(1, TIOCGWINSZ, {ws_row=41, ws_col=141, ws_xpixel=0, ws_ypixel=0}) = 0 ioctl(0, TIOCGWINSZ, {ws_row=41, ws_col=141, ws_xpixel=0, ws_ypixel=0}) = 0 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 fcntl64(0, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0 gettid() = 16690 tgkill(16690, 16690, SIGABRT) = 0 --- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGABRT +++
sync up and try to re-emerge it
Did that, it pulled down some init patch and now GDB is working just fine on both computers. Thanks.
there was a change i made to the build system which caused the error you reported, but it was available for a small amount of time before it was fixed which is why gdb wasnt rev bumped sorry for the trouble
