No problem, I should also know more about debugging, unfortunatly I don't. I
thought that was looking a little sparce, but didn't know what to send. Here
ya go.
# gdb /usr/share/pcp/bin/pmcd
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(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) run -f
Starting program: /usr/share/pcp/bin/pmcd -f
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x42080f40 in strncpy () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0 0x42080f40 in strncpy () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1 0x4007d1b0 in read_ksyms (end_addr=0xbfffe870) at ksym.c:271
#2 0x4007dac4 in read_ksym_sources () at ksym.c:481
#3 0x40072fd8 in linux_init (dp=0x8063458) at pmda.c:4005
#4 0x080518ab in GetAgentDso ()
#5 0x08051b0f in ContactAgents ()
#6 0x08051e55 in ParseInitAgents ()
#7 0x0804d25a in main ()
#8 0x42017589 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb)
Troy
Mark Goodwin wrote:
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Troy Dawson wrote:
A simple recipe for getting a backtrace is as follows:
gdb /usr/share/pcp/bin/pmcd
gdb> run -f
sorry, should have been more explicit - I need the backtrace too,
so please add the following gdb command to the above instructions:
gdb> where
Thanks
-- Mark
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