Is there something specific to do to make gdb automatically load symbol
files shipped by debug package ?
On some host, it works automagically:
[root@node1 ~]# gdb rpc.idmapd /core.4367
GNU gdb 6.6-5mdv2008.1 (Mandriva Linux release 2008.1)
[..]
Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libevent-1.4.so.2...(no debugging
symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libevent-1.4.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib64/libnsl.so.1...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/lib64/libnsl-2.7.so.debug...done.
done.
...
Core was generated by `rpc.idmapd'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
On another one, it doesn't:
[root@chatelet ~]# gdb /usr/sbin/automount /core.14837
GNU gdb 6.6-5mdv2008.1 (Mandriva Linux release 2008.1)
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This GDB was configured as ""...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/usr/sbin/automount'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
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