Bug 53332 – KDbg 1.2.9: When trying to debug an executable, it said "gdb: Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1"" and wouldn't let me debug it.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Adam 2004-06-08 11:21:34 UTC]

I tried to debug an executable using KDbg 1.2.9.  After loading the executable, the following message in a warning dialog (with an "!") appeared:

gdb: Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1"

and the executable isn't loaded.  I don't know what the message means, but since it seems to be talking about a library I suspect it might be an error in the installation of the Gentoo package specifically.

When I debug it with gdb directly, the same message appears, but it lets me debug it normally.

The same thing happened with a different executable, so it can't be related to the specific executable I was debugging.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start KDbg 1.2.9
2. Open any executable with debugging information from File -> Executable...

Actual Results:  
The aforementioned message appeared

Expected Results:  
Opened the executable and its source code


root>emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2
imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl
pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd
truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2004-06-08 13:12:03 UTC]

sounds like a local problem, perhaps a kdbg error, but i don't think this is a gentoo related thing.

[Comment 2 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2004-06-08 14:28:22 UTC]

Version 1.2.10

    * Fixed the "Using host libthread_db" error message.
    * Fixed inappropriate icon sizes.

[Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2004-06-25 05:22:56 UTC]

Adam: Does 1.2.10 work for you?

[Comment 4 Adam 2004-06-25 06:03:31 UTC]

Yes, actually I installed version 1.9.5 because I couldn't figure out how to tell portage to always update a package with a certain version; it seems you can only specify a certain version once.  I haven't had the problem with 1.9.5.

[Comment 5 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2004-06-28 12:15:57 UTC]

:)