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and subject line Re: Bug#889890: firefox: unable to start running firefox in
gdb even with firefox-dbgsym installed
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regarding firefox: unable to start running firefox in gdb even with
firefox-dbgsym installed
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Package: firefox
Version: 58.0.1-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I am unable to run firefox under gdb, it gives out an error saying -
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
"/usr/bin/firefox": not in executable format: File format not recognized
This is when firefox-esr is not running, only firefox running and have
debug symbols of both versions .
Some info. that might help -
/home/shirish> firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 58.0.1
/home/shirish> gdb firefox
GNU gdb (Debian 7.12-6+b1) 7.12.0.20161007-git
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.
For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
"/usr/bin/firefox": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) quit
/home/shirish> which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox
/home/shirish> ls -l /usr/bin/firefox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 113 Jan 24 14:18 /usr/bin/firefox
/home/shirish> gdb firefox-esr
GNU gdb (Debian 7.12-6+b1) 7.12.0.20161007-git
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.
For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
Reading symbols from firefox-esr...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/38/c15eb0fe6a883d76452734bc4af4bceb3b6144.debug...done.
done.
(gdb) quit
/home/shirish> dpkg -l firefox-dbgsym
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Architecture Description
+++-======================================-========================-========================-=================================================================================
ii firefox-dbgsym 58.0.1-1
amd64 debug symbols for firefox
-- Package-specific info:
-- Addons package information
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental'), (1,
'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IN.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN.UTF-8
(charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IN.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii debianutils 4.8.4
ii fontconfig 2.12.6-0.1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.26.1-3
ii libc6 2.26-4
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.15.10-1
ii libcairo2 1.15.10-1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.2-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-2
ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4
ii libffi6 3.2.1-8
ii libfontconfig1 2.12.6-0.1
ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-1
ii libgcc1 1:7.2.0-19
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.54.3-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.26-2
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-1
ii libhunspell-1.6-0 1.6.2-1
ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3
ii libnspr4 2:4.18-1
ii libnss3 2:3.35-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.14-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.22.0-1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-5
ii libstdc++6 7.2.0-19
ii libvpx4 1.6.1-3
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxcb-shm0 1.12-1
ii libxcb1 1.12-1
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-3
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
ii procps 2:3.3.12-3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
firefox recommends no packages.
Versions of packages firefox suggests:
ii fonts-lmodern 2.004.5-3
ii fonts-stix [otf-stix] 1.1.1-4
ii libcanberra0 0.30-6
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.16-2
pn mozplugger <none>
-- no debconf information
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Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 11:41:59PM +0200, javibarroso wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 18:19:57 +0530
> =?UTF-8?B?c2hpcmlzaCDgpLbgpL/gpLDgpYDgpLc=?= wrote:
>
> > at bottom :-
> >
> > On 08/02/2018, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > > On 08/02/2018 12:08, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> > >> Package: firefox
> > >> Version: 58.0.1-1
> > >> Severity: important
> > >>
> > >> Dear Maintainer,
> > >>
> > >> I am unable to run firefox under gdb, it gives out an error saying -
> > >>
> > >> Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
> > >> "/usr/bin/firefox": not in executable format: File format not
> recognized
> > >>
> > >> This is when firefox-esr is not running, only firefox running and have
> > >> debug symbols of both versions .
> > > firefox is a script, firefox-esr is a binary.
> > > I guess this is the normal behavior of gdb here.
> > >
> > > (or I am missing the point)
> > >
> > > S
> > >
> >
>
> > In that case, how do I get/run a session of gdb for firefox-58 ?
>
> Test
>
> gdb /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
>
> (gdb) run
>
Pretty much yes. Closing as not a bug.
Cheers,
Julien
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