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DrMikeDuke

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Registered: 2008-05-12

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[Solved] using GDB

Hey,

I hope this is in the right place. Anyhow, I'm trying to help find out more about a bug in pacman I posted on bug-track. But I'm not sure how to get GDB to do what I want it to do (and yes I've man'd and looked about..:P) Anyhow. What im trying to do is to run pacman in GDB and wait for it to segfault (it will) and do a backtrace. Trouble is I cant seem to get GDB to RUN it.

Any ideas?

Thanks!!

Last edited by DrMikeDuke (2009-08-11 11:23:51)

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skottish

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Re: [Solved] using GDB

If it's an operation like -Suy that needs to be run as root, make sure that you log in as root first. Then:

gdb pacman

At the prompt:

run -Suy

DrMikeDuke

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-05-12

Posts: 79

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Re: [Solved] using GDB

If it's an operation like -Suy that needs to be run as root, make sure that you log in as root first. Then:

gdb pacman

At the prompt:

run -Suy

thanks a lot mate. worked like a charm. very easy when you know how hard when you dont

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