Jon Rafkind wrote:
> Jeff Dike wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:48:09PM -0600, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> How can I use gdb to debug uml? I get a segfault because I have been
>>> hacking on the ext3 code but I can't seem to use gdb to set breakpoints
>>> in uml
>>>
>>> gdb) break ext3_fill_super
>>> gdb) run
>>>     
>>>       
>> Can you bring UML up and attach gdb to it later?  That seems to be reliable.
>>
>> gdb has always had problems with UML, and I've never understood why.
>>
>>                              Jeff
>>
>>   
>>     
> I've been ok thus far starting linux from gdb, but I would like to
> attach or otherwise have the gdb console at all times while running uml.
> How can I do this? The documentation on user-mode-linux.sf.net hasn't
> worked for me.
>
> I have CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO set in .config.
>
> $ ./linux ubd0=images/x debug stderr=1
>
> But that does not bring up an extra xterm with a gdb console.
>   
Actually scratch that. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong before but
now I can make gdb attach to uml in a seperate xterm. Its probably the
extra 'debug' argument.

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