> Is it only when using gdbserver, or does it also happen when using gdb > directly on the board ?
It also happens when using gdb directly on the board. Hadn't tested it because we don't have gdb in the target, but I included it and this is the result: (gdb) break ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S:32 warning: could not convert '../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S' from the host encoding (ANSI_X3.4-1968) to UTF-32. This normally should not happen, please file a bug report. No source file named ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S. Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y Breakpoint 1 (../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S:32) pending. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/root/tomcli Breakpoint 1, _start () at ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S:32 warning: 32 ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S: No such file or directory (gdb) s 35 in ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S (gdb) s 36 in ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S (gdb) s _start () at ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S:40 40 in ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S (gdb) s 41 in ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S (gdb) s _dl_start (arg=0xbffffd80) at rtld.c:536 warning: 536 rtld.c: No such file or directory (gdb) s 538 in rtld.c (gdb) c Continuing. tomcli[153]: User access of kernel address (dffcff10) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0) Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7fe5dd8 in _dl_sysdep_parse_arguments (args=0xbffff9f8, start_argptr=0xdffcff10) at /usr/src/debug/glibc/2.39+git/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/dl-sysdep.c:80 warning: 80 /usr/src/debug/glibc/2.39+git/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/dl-sysdep.c: No such file or directory (gdb) bt #0 0xb7fe5dd8 in _dl_sysdep_parse_arguments (args=0xbffff9f8, start_argptr=0xdffcff10) at /usr/src/debug/glibc/2.39+git/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/dl-sysdep.c:80 #1 _dl_sysdep_start (start_argptr=start_argptr@entry=0xdffcff10, dl_main=0xb7fe7f70 <dl_main>) at /usr/src/debug/glibc/2.39+git/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/dl-sysdep.c:107 #2 0xb7fe705c in _dl_start_final (arg=arg@entry=0xdffcff10, info=info@entry=0xbffffa90) at rtld.c:494 #3 0xb7fe7724 in _dl_start (arg=0xdffcff10) at rtld.c:583 #4 0xb7fec240 in _start () at ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-start.S:41 (gdb) Tomas Alvarez Vanoli R&D Embedded Software Developer