gdb attach on 5.3-beta5?

[Ryan Sommers]

Short answer, you still need to supply GDB with the executable name. do
'gdb -p <pid> /path/to/executable'.

Long answer: http://00f.net/blogs/index.php/2004/09/11/p98

Hope this helps!

-- 
Ryan Sommers
ryans at gamersimpact.com

Mike Hunter said:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems with gdb attach.  I wrote a demo script that just
> prints out it's pid over and over, then tried to sick gdb on it:
>
> #gdb6 program 29353
> GNU gdb 20040720 [GDB v6.x for FreeBSD]
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
> are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
> details.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-portbld-freebsd5.2"...program: No such
> file or directory.
>
> Attaching to process 29353
> solib-svr4.c:1307: internal-error: legacy_fetch_link_map_offsets called
> without legacy link_map support enabled.
> A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
> further debugging may prove unreliable.
> Quit this debugging session? (y or n) y
>
> solib-svr4.c:1307: internal-error: legacy_fetch_link_map_offsets called
> without legacy link_map support enabled.
> A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
> further debugging may prove unreliable.
> Create a core file of GDB? (y or n) n
>
> The program itself appears to get KILL, aka it says "Killed".
>
> Same results for gdb and gdb6.  Is this a known issue?
>
> Help will likely enable me to post a question about why my X server is
> crashing :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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