On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 14:15:16 +0000 Alessandro Ghedini <gh...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 01:31:48PM +1100, Martin Schwenke wrote: > > Package: valgrind > > Version: 1:3.11.0-1 > > Severity: important > > > > When I run valgrind against anything, I see warnings like this: > > > > $ valgrind -q /bin/echo > > --14923-- WARNING: Serious error when reading debug info > > --14923-- When reading debug info from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.21.so: > > --14923-- Ignoring non-Dwarf2/3/4 block in .debug_info > > --14923-- WARNING: Serious error when reading debug info > > --14923-- When reading debug info from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.21.so: > > --14923-- Last block truncated in .debug_info; ignoring > > --14923-- WARNING: Serious error when reading debug info > > --14923-- When reading debug info from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.21.so: > > --14923-- parse_CU_Header: is neither DWARF2 nor DWARF3 nor DWARF4 > > --14923-- WARNING: Serious error when reading debug info > > --14923-- When reading debug info from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.21.so: > > --14923-- Ignoring non-Dwarf2/3/4 block in .debug_info > > --14923-- WARNING: Serious error when reading debug info > > --14923-- When reading debug info from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.21.so: > > --14923-- Last block truncated in .debug_info; ignoring > > --14923-- WARNING: Serious error when reading debug info > > --14923-- When reading debug info from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.21.so: > > --14923-- parse_CU_Header: is neither DWARF2 nor DWARF3 nor DWARF4 > > I think this may be related to https://bugs.debian.org/780173. The glibc > package recently enabled compressed debug symbols but valgrind doesn't > support them yet. Though I'm not sure what would be a good way to verify > this. > > As for solutions, we can wait for valgrind to add support for compressed > symbols or ask the glibc maintainers to not compress debug symbols. Either > way there's not much I, as maintainer of valgrind, can do about this.
Looks like valgrind upstream implemented support for compressed debug symbols: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303877 Would be nice to get it included in the Debian valgrind package.
