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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]