On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Daniel W. Burke wrote: > At 05:30 PM 4/19/96 EDT, you wrote: > > > > We just upgraded our system to Linux 1.2.13 and now whenever the > >mud dumps a corefile, if coredumpsize is unlimited we get a 330+ MB core, > >if we set the size to 6000 kbytes we get a file of EXACTLY 6000 kbytes, > >and on top of that gdb says: > > > >Couldn't fetch registers from core file: File in wrong format. > >Couldn't fetch registers from core file: File in wrong format. > >#0 0x0 in ?? () > >(gdb) > > > > Any ideas on whats going wrong? So far we've only installed the > >a, d, n, and the disk with the Linux source on it. Did we forget > >something _VERY_ important? > > > > Many thanks in advance, > > > > - Sean > > I've been trying to figure out the EXACT same error...... > well, I'm not getting 300meg cores, but I'm getting that error from gdb :( > > SO far anyone I've asked hasn't had a clue :( > I understand this is a bug in gdb in the Slackware 3.0 distribution. Try finding a newer version of gdb. I'm running an old distribution (pre 2.3) with the kernel patched up from 1.1.59 to 1.2.13, and my gdb has always worked. As a temporary work-around, run the MUD from within gdb, and try to catch those crash bugs as they happen. Trey
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