Comment 8 for bug 267633

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote :

Yes I did reproduce it twice. I agree this is a memory issue. Look at the slides. I also added a series of slides about the second attempt I did when trying to monitor the event. I want to say also that backtrace does not work for me. Look below:

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo gdb aptoncd 2>&1 | tee gdb-aptoncd.txt
[sudo] password for thomas:
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description
SIG33 No No Yes Real-time event 33
(gdb) set pagination 0
(gdb) run
Starting program:
No executable file specified.
Use the "file" or "exec-file" command.
(gdb) exec-file aptoncd
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb)
[1]+ Stopped sudo gdb aptoncd 2>&1 | tee gdb-aptoncd.txt
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo chmod -cR 777 /usr/bin/aptoncd
mode of `/usr/bin/aptoncd' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo chown 1000 -cR 777 /usr/bin/aptoncd
chown: cannot access `777': No such file or directory
changed ownership of `/usr/bin/aptoncd' to 1000
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo chown 1000 -cR /usr/bin/aptoncd
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo gdb aptoncd 2>&1 | tee gdb-aptoncd.txt
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description
SIG33 No No Yes Real-time event 33
(gdb) set pagination 0
(gdb) run
Starting program:
No executable file specified.
Use the "file" or "exec-file" command.
(gdb) file
No executable file now.
No symbol file now.
(gdb) exec-file
No executable file now.
(gdb) exec-file aptoncd
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) quit
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo aptoncd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
FATAL -> Failed to fork.
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$