I really appreciate the help I'm getting here, so don't get me wrong, I really don't want to be negative with what you propose, but:
>> "/home/me/application.core " is not a core dump: File format not recognized > iirc core dump format was changed to elf(5) sometime > around when PIE was imported, you probably need older gdb Is that really likely? I mean, all files (Kernels, gdb, .core file) derive from the same machine, a standard OpenBSD 4.3 installation. Why should an older gdb version help here?

