problem with gdb

GiZmen gizmen at blurp.one.pl
Mon Apr 26 18:07:52 PDT 2004


> On Sunday, 25 April 2004 at 20:42:07 +0200, GiZmen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have problem with gdb. When i start gdb as a regular user or even user
> > i wheel group, i cant debug program that i want. I start gdb with my program
> > and i set breakpoint and i run this program. And i do not stop i this
> > breakpoint. gdb prints output and this message:
> >
> > Program exited normally.
> > You can't do that without a process to debug.
> >
> > and it return to gdb prompt.
> >
> > When i do the the same as root it works perfectly. I dont have any
> > idea what is the cause of this problem.
> 
> Looks like you're debugging a setuid executable.  By the time you hit
> the breakpoint, the process has changed its euid, and you can no
> longer stop it.
> 
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no i do not have suid bit on this binary. I tried on other freebsd box and
on other boxes it works good. i dont know what is wrong with this gdb :(

-rwxr-xr-x  1 gizmen  gizmen  - 128189 26 Kwi 01:40 rect_matrix*

so what else can be wrong ?

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		GiZmen

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