From: Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:29:30 +0200
There are situations (probably after restarting a programm being
debugged) which
cause gdb5.0 to hang on my IRIX 6.5 box - taking lots of CPU time.
I can't kill it - even as root.
So I have to reboot my machine which is more than just a nuisance.
This smells like a bug in the IRIX 6.5 kernel. In principle you
should always be able to kill a user process using `kill -9 PID'.
Have you tried killing both GDB and the process being debugged?
It might be possible to attach to the hanging GDB. Run GDB on the gdb
binary itself, and type `attach PID' where PID is the process ID of
the hanging GDB.
Has anybody made similar experiences and is there a cure to it?
I haven't seen any bug-reports describing this problem before. If it
really is a kernel bug, upgrading might help.
Mark
