Building packages with sys-devel/binutils-2.32 creates defect/incompatible debug information. gdb exits as soon a such a debug file is loaded. This migh affect many other bugreporting tools. The same bug in ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1815774 Steps to reproduce: 1) update to sys-devel/binutils-2.32 2) rebuild/update any package like sys-libs/glibc 3) try to debug any program with gdb gdb will exit with (in case of glibc): BFD: /usr/lib64/debug/lib64/ld-2.28.so.debug: unable to initialize decompress status for section .debug_aranges Downgrading sys-devel/binutils-2.31.1-r4 is not enough, all packages build after the update need to be build again. Possible rollback (might take a few hours) buildafterbinutils-2.32 --- #!/bin/bash stime=$(cat /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/binutils-2.32/BUILD_TIME) for dir in /var/db/pkg/*/* ; do if [ -f $dir/BUILD_TIME ] ; then btime=$(<$dir/BUILD_TIME) if [ $btime -ge $stime ] ; then package=$(basename $dir) category=$(basename $(dirname $dir)) echo =$category/$package fi fi done --- 1) "emerge -1a =sys-devel/binutils-2.31.1-r4" 2) "eselect binutils list" (and select the older version) 3) "./buildafterbinutils-2.32" (displays all packages) 4) "./buildafterbinutils-2.32 > packagelist" (keep a list in case emerge fails after rebuilding binutils-2.32) 5) "emerge -av1 $(./buildafterbinutils-2.32)"
It is the other way around: old gdb can't read debug info of newer binutils. Unfortunately old binutils used to write incorrect compresstion section size. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 679564 ***
