debugging the automounter

["Philip Ong Jr." <pongjr@gmail.com>]

Are there any good links on how to go about setting up debugging the 
automounter using the gdb?

I’m running rhel3 and trying to figure out an automounter problem. I’ve 
installed the debuginfo package so the binary won’t be stripped.

Does the debuginfo package install another binary to debug the 
automounter using gdb because the binary looks stripped to me…?

# file /usr/sbin/automount
/usr/sbin/automount: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 
1 (SYSV), stripped

This is NOT stripped…but I’m not sure what this is used for or how to 
use it…
# file /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/automount.debug
/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/automount.debug: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, 
Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

Basically, I’d like to get to the point where I can have an non-stripped 
automounter and how to verify it is not stripped or how to build and 
debug it.

#gdb /usr/sbin/automount
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-0.30.1rh)
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-redhat-linux-gnu"...(no debugging 
symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) quit

#uname -a
Linux l-sim-33-075 2.4.21-53.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Feb 21 19:01:38 EST 2008 
i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

# automount -V
Linux automount version 4.1.3-216

# rpm -qa | grep autofs
autofs-4.1.3-216
autofs-debuginfo-4.1.3-216

I’d appreciate any help.

Thanks
Phil