Your message dated Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:10:48 -0400
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and subject line Re: Bug#485904: gdb: segfault when setting watchpoint on
remote amd64 kvm kernel
has caused the Debian Bug report #485904,
regarding gdb: segfault when setting watchpoint on remote amd64 kvm kernel
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Package: gdb
Version: 6.8-3
Severity: important
Bug does not occur with upsteam gdb. To reproduce run an amd64 kernel
in kvm, then set a watchpoint and continue:
$ gdb vmlinux
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 "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) target remote localhost:1234
Remote debugging using localhost:1234
0xffffffff80209f19 in default_idle ()
(gdb) watch (*(long*)0xffffffff80582558)
Hardware watchpoint 1: *(long *) 18446744071567844696
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Segmentation fault
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gdb depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080405-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries
gdb recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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I can't reproduce this bug, and it's been opened several years ago. I'm
closing it. Feel free to reopen if it's still applicable.
Thanks,
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