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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Subject: Re: Bad core files with 2.6.19-rc2
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:42:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061015184217.GZ30596@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <microsoft-free.87mz7yjnm2.fsf@youngs.au.com>

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 12:53:41PM +1000, Steve Youngs wrote:

> gdb doesn't like any core dump file generated while running
> 2.6.19-rc2.  If I `kill -SIGSEGV $some_app_pid' and then...
> 
>   gdb some_app core
> 
> I get...
> 
>   warning: Couldn't find general-purpose registers in core file.
>   #0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> 
> But if I gdb attach to a running process and then kill -SIGSEGV
> the process, it produces a normal trace without problem.

It seems this issue should be fixed in Linus' tree now.

Can you confirm it's fixed?

TIA
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-15 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-15  2:53 Bad core files with 2.6.19-rc2 Steve Youngs
2006-10-15 18:42 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-10-15 19:24   ` Petr Vandrovec
2006-10-15 22:15     ` Steve Youngs

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