Re: Fails to break in a XTerm started by another program

On 10/17/2013 10:40 AM, Teodor Petrov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have one very bizarre problem with GDB (not GDB fault probably). The 
> problem is that if I
> have a terminal started by Code::Blocks (wxWidgets based IDE) and I 
> run GDB from this
> terminal, the debugger fails to break on breakpoints in a simple 
> console c++ program.
> The steps are as follows:
> 1. start Code::Blocks
> 2. start a terminal from inside it (Code::Blocks will start the terminal)
> 3. start GDB
>
> The problem happens randomly, so if I repeat the 3 steps several 
> times, most of the times
> the debugger won't work and some of them - it will.
>
> I've asked about this problem in the IRC channel and people there 
> advised me to gather some
> strace logs. I have the logs and they can be found here:
> 1. GDB works - http://pastebin.com/ubqv5XbX
> 2. GDB fails - http://pastebin.com/zkeJzTya
>
> By looking at them I cannot tell where the problem is.
> Can someone suggest what else can I do to find the root cause for this 
> problem?
>
> I'm running Gentoo linux 64bit, kernel 3.10.5 (for quite a while), 
> up-to-date unstable system.
>
> Best regards,
> Teodor
Hi again,

Any chance for a hint where to look for the problem? It turned out that 
I'm not the
only one which sees this problem. A user on the Code::Blocks' forum 
reported the
same problem. He is running up to date Arch Linux system and old release 
of C::B.
I suppose this is bug which happens on newer systems, because at work 
I'm running
CentOS 6 system and there the debugger works fine 100% of the time.

Best regards,
Teodor