Ralph wrote: > > On Fri May 11 15:54 , 'James G. Sack (jim)' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > >> James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >>> gdb attach PID >>> > generate-core-file /tmp/coredump >> And here's another way >> >> cd /tmp >> gcore PID >> >> This creates a file core.PID >> Note: all along, 'PID' is the _pid number_ of your email client, eh? >> >> (Also NOTE: The dump may be 50 MB -- substiture someplace else for /tmp, >> as might be appropriate for your system.) >> >> If you don't have gdb, you won't have gcore, either. >> You would need to install the gdb package. >.. > I downloaded it, unpacked it, ./configure, and make. But the output was > extensive and the ending doesn't look promising: > ..
Don't see the problem immediately, you may have a version problem.. ..but why are you compiling. There are probably prebuilt rpms that are more likely to install without problem. You have FC4, I think? Just goto rpm.pbone.net, and search for rpms by name for gdb for FC4 or whatever is your fedora version eg, find the FC4 entry, labeled something like gdb-6.3.0.0-1.21.i386.rpm and download that. After downloading, if (as root) rpm -Uvh gdb-6.3.0.0-1.21.i386.rpm doesn't work, you may be forced to install some dependencies. Dependency hell, they call it. But even if this occurs, gdb doesn't have as many dependencies as some things, so it may be worth following the trail -- you may need to get additional packages like libncurses, librpm? Just use rpm.pbone recursively until gdb installs. You are allowed to give up on rpm hell problems after 5 downloads. ;-) Yum install gdb would be better, but I understand that doesn't work since FC4 was officialy orphaned. Regards and good luck, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
