kgdb unuseable with cores on current (for some people)

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Fri, 14 May 2010, Kostik Belousov wrote:

> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:55:35AM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As was revealed in a recent thread here [1], several people have been
>> unable to use kgdb on coredumps for the past few months (but possibly not
>> everyone).
>>
>> I am one of those affected, and have narrowed the breakage with a binary
>> search to between SVN revisions 202883 and 202954 (that is, Jan 23 1200h
>> and Jan 25 0000h).  Looking at the changes, alc's revision 202897 and
>> attilio's revision 202933 look to be the most plausible culprits in terms
>> of what they touched.  I will continue with my bisection, but with only 36
>> revisions in play, it is probably worth looking for the bug in parallel
>> with the bisection.
>
> Try reverting r202897 on fresh HEAD. I very much doubt that r202933
> can be responsible.
>

Indeed, 202933 was cleared of blame in the latest bisection.  I'm 
currently pulling up to HEAD and will try reverting 202897.

-Ben