Questions tagged [gdb]
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How to setup GDB integration in Visual Studio 2019+ for the local machine?
For Visual Studio 2015 there is a dedicated "GDB Debugger Extension". Apparently its actual name in the marketplace misleadingly is "Visual C++ for IoT Development" but explicitly ...
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gdb hangs when attempting to attach to hanging process in a VM
I'm running Linux in a Parallels VM on Apple Silicon. I have some Mac directories mounted over to the Linux side.
In one of those mounted directories, I have a hanging process that doesn't respond to ^...
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How to download GDB from minGW correctly?
I am using GDB, downloaded from MinGW Installation Manager(I doubt it's installed correctly), to debug C++, and GDB cannot be found in the path below used to debug.
C:\msys64\mingw64\bin
Other exes ...
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What can I use in core-pattern to dump a core and nothing else?
I'm currently working on a weird GNU chroot environment, that uses abrt-hook-ccpp for the original system to dump cores, however the environment I'm in does not have that utility.
systemd-coredump ...
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how to access windows localhost from wsl2?
I have windows 11 with wsl2(ubuntu) installed on it.
I've setup a gdb listener server on my windows localhost and want to access it from wsl2. but it seems my windows machine and wsl vm are using ...
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GDB Hangs after “New Thread” on macOS
I have built GDB from source on macOS 12.0 and codesigned it. However, every time I try to debug a program, I get this:
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x10000324f: file main.cpp, line 50.
(gdb) run
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Installation failed for gdb in kali linux
$ sudo apt-get install gdb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package gdb is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may ...
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How do I dump the memory of running process in Windows?
I am learning how to use GDB. I want to dump the memory of a running process. I tried to like this
gdb -pid 2767
(gdb) gcore test.dmp
warning: cannot close "test.dmp": Invalid operation
Can't create ...
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libsymbolic.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I am trying to debug my C++ application from the shell.
gdb --args [scripts' parameters...]
Then, in the gdb:
(gdb) run
and I get the output:
error while loading shared libraries: libsymbolic.so: ...
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GDB hangs when running 32bit executables
I have a VM with Mint Cinnamon 19.2 (this also happens in Ubuntu 18.04):
whenever I run a 32 bit executable, whether i put breakpoints or not, I get these kind of warnings:
warning: Breakpoint ...
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gdb can't debug the 32bits program for linux
How to solve this? When I use the gdb to debug the 32bits program, this warning appeared. And this made the program can't run.
This is the configuration information about gdb
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Prompt doesn't scroll/clear until window resizing (using gdb/cgdb in bash)
I'm just learning to write C, and I have been having this problem while using gdb/cgdb. It's really annoying, to the extent that it discourages me from using the debugger entirely. I'm using WSL for ...
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Install GDB remotely onto a Mac through SSH?
I've built the binaries for GDB on the Mac, but now I need to codesign it, and every tutorial tells me to open up the Keychain GUI to achieve this. I don't have any access to the actual computer, I ...
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GEF can't find python modules in virtualenv
I wanted to try out GEF but I am having some issues with missing commands. The tools says it's because of missing python packages, but I just installed them in a clean virtualenv to try.
I am ...
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gdb failed to load sharedlibrary
I had this problem when trying to decode a corefile generated by a system crash.
But after I load the corefile and debug symbol of my main process, I found the gdb did not load any of sharedlibrary ...
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How to install GDB 8 in CentOS 7
I need to install GDB 8.0 or above in my CentOS 7. My current version of gdb is 7.6.1.
I have followed the guide at devtoolset-7-gdb | Install HowTo:
yum install centos-release-scl-rh
yum --...
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Pointer address value truncated
I am facing core dump issue in my application code, application got dumped in frequent intervals(once in a month, not exactly). During the core analysis , i am able to identify that corrupted pointer ...
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How to codesign gdb on OS X Mojave?
After installing gdb from homebrew (via $ brew install gdb), I followed these instructions to give gdb permissions to attach to a process.
When I got to the step that runs the command:
$ codesign --...
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GDB cross-compilation for arm
I cross-compiling gdb on ubuntu 16.04 to debug an application running on arm.
The main tutorial I'm following is
https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingCrossGDBandGDBserver
The cross-toolchain ...
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Unix alias to redirect background process output
I'm looking for a way to redirect the output of a background process into /dev/null or some other file.
$ python ./spam_console.py &
$ [start doing something in the foreground
$ cat test.py
$ [...
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STM32 Microcontroller with GDB: debugging doesn't work when I change flash structure
I want to debug my application for the STM32F107 microcontroller using JLinkGDBServer and the arm-none-eabi-gdb client. I am using the startup assembly file and the linker script provided by default ...
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What format crash utility's disassembler uses to output assembly instructions?
Crash utility can disassemble kernel functions. but what format it uses? Which is first, source or destination?
inst src, dist
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inst dist, src
This is what I am asking about:
crash> dis ...
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What to install with Qt Creator?
I'm trying to install Qt creator on Windows but it has so many options (and the whole installation requires many GB) that I really don't know which ones I need.
I only want to be able to create and ...
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What is batch mode execution in GDB?
I read a comment like - "Runs gdb in batch mode".
So wanted to understand what does batch mode execution mean for GDB?
And what is the other mode of execution for GDB?
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what to do when vs-code remote C++ debugging asks to set gnutarget format-name
I am on to debugging remote C++ program running on raspberry pi on ubuntu. I have followed https://medium.com/@spe_/debugging-c-c-programs-remotely-using-visual-studio-code-and-gdbserver-559d3434fb78. ...
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MinGW: Python enabled GDB on Windows
I use QtCreator 4.6.2, which apparently requires Python-enabled GDB if I want to use it as a debugger.
I tried to install mingw32-gdb-python version 7.5-1 with MinGW installer (graphical interface), ...
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How do I uninstall pwndbg?
Not much explaining to do, except I Googled how to and couldn't find anything relating to the uninstall process. I am on a Debian 9 system.
If I recall correctly I installed it using:
git clone ...
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GDB 7.6 TUI does not refresh the display, creating artifacts
I'm using GDB 7.6 on a remote server.
When I start gdb, everything is fine, as long as the program to debug is not run. I can use up and down arrows to navigate through GDB history, etc. No display ...
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gdb binary and where to find it?
I'm following the instruction here to install gdb on my MacOS Sierra.
In section "2.1.3. Code-sign the gdb binary", I'm supposed to "specify the full path to the gdb binary" but I don't know what it ...
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How to install specific gdb (or other) package version using apt-cyg in Cygwin?
I am trying to install fresh version of gdb debugger on my cygwin (version that comes with cygwin is buggy). Since I need the newest version of gdb, I need to use apt-cyg to install it.
When I run ...
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Cannot see variables in gdb
I'm new to cygwin (and *nix for that matter) and don't understand the following gdb behavior.
I've created an executable that intentionally results in a SIGSEGV:
#include <iostream>
void Func(...
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Arrow keys in GDB (window mode) not working with TERM=xterm
First, this is not the history size problem.
(gdb) show history size
The size of the command history is 70000000.
Second, it happens in xterm and not in vt100 and I don't want vt100 because of weird ...
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How to equivalent to ps -ef in Windows 10
I have looked online, and have not found anything that would accomplish what I want to do. I am looking for a command with output equivalent to "ps -ef" of Linux so I can find out the process id ...
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Closing open file without killing the process
I have java(yeah java...) application running on CentOS 7.
After a while, there are many "deleted" files that bother me.
for deleted files used(not the issue):
lsof | grep "(deleted)"
I found them ...
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coredumps 'can only dump core to fully qualified path!'
I have a question about generating a coredumps under Debian.
First, I enable the feature trough this command :
ulimit -c unlimited
Next I create a Segmentation fault but I have this error :
[...
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How to enter into process running on gdb?
So I was trying to debug a program that runs on two node. I use yod as task launcher.
yod -hosts node01,node02 ./dist_task -nl 2
The program is stuck. So I wanted to use the gdb like this
yod -...
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$HOME is not defined for root user on Ubuntu 14.04
On a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 install, the bash environment for the root user does not have $HOME defined. I need to run some apps from a root shell, for example:
gdb /usr/sbin/apache2
This is difficult ...
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Emacs, gdb: How do direct program output to gdb buffer in gdb 2 window mode
Is there a way to tell Emacs 24.3.1 with gdb 7.5 to display the program output in the gdb buffer instead of a separate "** input/output **" buffer?
(Displaying it in a separate buffer in 2 window ...
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Intalling gdb and pstack on Amazon Linux AMI
I tried installing gdb and pstack on EC2 Instance with Amazon Linux AMI (it was not installed by default), and it's not working.
Tried:
[ec2-user@ip-172-21-ab-xyz ~]$ sudo yum install gdb
Loaded ...
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Homebrew install gdb, symlink error with binutils
I'm trying to install GDB via Homebrew on OSX Mavericks via the command brew install homebrew/dupes/gdb. This error message pops up during install:
gdb requires special privileges to access Mach ...
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Dtrace shows posix_spawn called with only 3 argument. Trying to launch by hand
I ran dtruss on a process that launches another one: the League of Legends Launcher starts the main game process with certain arguments that I can't seem to pass via the command line.
What caught my ...
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Software: Launching League of Legends spectator mode from Command Line (Mac)
Background: tl;dr at the end
League of Legends has a spectator mode, in which you can watch someone else's game (essentially a replay) with a 3 minute delay.
Popular LoL website OP.GG has figured ...
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Debugging linux kernel, SIGKILL
Trying to debug linux kernel (vmlinux) with gdb during my education, but after I run kernel I just got "program terminated with SIGKILL":
gdb vmlinux-3.11.0-12-generic
...GDB header...
Reading ...
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How to install gdb on Arch Linux
How do I install the GNU Debugger (gdb) on Arch Linux? I've checked that I don't already have gdb installed by running this command:
gdb -help
I've tried this:
sudo apt-get install gdb
but it's ...
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Debug info package for centos
Hi I am getting the following on each line of gdb instruction steps. Does anyone know what package I need to install to remove this message from a CentOS build?
Missing separate debuginfos, use: ...
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Old gdb cannot find out how to do logging
I'm running an obsolete Red Hat OS and debugging with the built-in gdb but I cannot figure out how to do logging.
I've tried:
set logging on
But get:
No symbol "logging" in current context
It ...
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Where is the console ST2/GDB
I'm using sublime text 2. I got GDB to work but I don't see a console window anywhere. I see the GDB console but nothing that outputs text from my C++ program.
How do I use GDB and see my the console ...
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How to know if gdb is installed?
How can i know if gdb is installed in a unix machine?
I run the following commands:
> gdb
> gdb main
and the result is
gdb: command not found
but i don't if this means that gdb is not ...
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Can I remotely monitor printf results of a C program?
I have a long running C program in which I've started from the Terminal.app using:
gdb program_name
gdb run
I'm using many printf statements to monitor the progress of the program. Unfortunately, ...
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Why gdb is bind to fixed version of autoconf?
Edit 1: I am trying to build gdb from source.
Why can't I use autoconf 2.65 instead of 2.64? It is confusing:(
/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/mirror/ins/ins-autoconf/bin/autoreconf -iv
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