Section index is uninitialized error message on Tru64 V5.1A (ds20)

[Foldi Tamas]

Hi gdb team,

        When I try to run gdb, i get the the following error message. What 
should
i do, or is this normal?

address@hidden gdb ./a        
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This GDB was configured as "alphaev67-dec-osf5.1"...mdebugread.c:2448:
gdb-internal-error: Section index is uninitialized

An internal GDB error was detected.  This may make further
debugging unreliable.  Continue this debugging session? (y or n) 
Create a core file containing the current state of GDB? (y or n) y
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/users/crow/./a 

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
warning: Hit heuristic-fence-post without finding
warning: enclosing function for address 0x3ff80020328
This warning occurs if you are debugging a function without any symbols
(for example, in a stripped executable).  In that case, you may wish to
increase the size of the search with the `set heuristic-fence-post' command.

Otherwise, you told GDB there was a function where there isn't one, or
(more likely) you have encountered a bug in GDB.
0x3ff80020328 in ?? ()

[snipp...]
address@hidden file a
a:      COFF format alpha dynamically linked, demand paged executable or
object module ___not stripped___ - version 3.13-14 

[snipp]
address@hidden dbx `which gdb` ./core
dbx version 5.1
Type 'help' for help.
Core file created by program "gdb"

signal IOT/Abort trap at >*[__kill, 0x3ff800e8908]      beq     a3,
0x3ff800e8920
(dbx) ts

Thread 0x3:
>  0 __kill(0x0, 0x4, 0x3ff00000000, 0x100000001, 0x3ff801a9c14)
>  [0x3ff800e8908]
   1 (unknown)() [0x3ff801ee108]
   2 __tis_raise(0x3ff801a9c14, 0x990, 0x3ff801229d8, 0x100000006,
0x3ff801869b4) [0x3ff801229d4]
   3 raise(0x3ff801229d8, 0x100000006, 0x3ff801869b4, 0x1400001f0,
0x3ff801a9c44) [0x3ff801869b0]
   4 abort(0x12004d674, 0x1400e4000, 0x0, 0x0, 0x100000000) [0x3ff801a9c40]
   5 internal_verror(file = 0x14001a820 = "mdebugread.c", line = 2448, fmt =
0x14001a830 = "Section index is uninitialized", ap = struct {
    _a0 = 0x11fffae50
    _offset = 24
}) ["utils.c":734, 0x12004d670]
   6 internal_error(file = 0x14001a820 = "mdebugread.c", line = 2448, string =
0x14001a830 = "Section index is uninitialized") ["utils.c":755, 0x12004d724]
   7 parse_partial_symbols(objfile = 0x1400e4000) ["mdebugread.c":2448,
0x1200d8e70]
   8 mdebug_build_psymtabs(objfile = 0x1400e4000, swap = 0x14005df90, info =
0x1400de0c0) ["mdebugread.c":512, 0x1200d46b8]
   9 mipscoff_symfile_read(objfile = 0x1400e4000, mainline = 1)
["mipsread.c":98, 0x1201432a8]
  10 syms_from_objfile(objfile = 0x1400e4000, addrs = 0x11fffb0e0, mainline =
1, verbo = 0) ["symfile.c":725, 0x120061d44]
  11 symbol_file_add(name = 0x11fffe028 = "./a", from_tty = 0, addrs = (nil),
mainline = 1, flags = 0) ["symfile.c":854, 0x120062110]
  12 symbol_file_add_main_1(args = 0x11fffe028 = "./a", from_tty = 0, flags =
0) ["symfile.c":915, 0x120062310]
  13 symbol_file_add_main(args = 0x11fffe028 = "./a", from_tty = 0)
["symfile.c":909, 0x1200622b8]
  14 do_captured_command(data = 0x11fffbaa0) ["top.c":482, 0x12005b530]
  15 catch_errors(func = 0x12005b504, args = 0x11fffbaa0, errstring =
0x140071c88 = "", mask = 6) ["top.c":416, 0x12005b454]
  16 catch_command_errors(command = 0x12006228c, arg = 0x11fffe028 = "./a",
from_tty = 0, mask = 6) ["top.c":502, 0x12005b5c8]
  17 captured_main(data = 0x11fffbfe0) ["main.c":559, 0x12004bde8]
  18 catch_errors(func = 0x12004b46c, args = 0x11fffbfe0, errstring =
0x1400714b0 = "", mask = 6) ["top.c":416, 0x12005b454]
  19 main(argc = 2, argv = 0x11fffc018) ["main.c":716, 0x12004c304]

Environment:
OSF1/Tru64 5.1A 1885 alpha DS/20 (alphaev67-dec-osf5.1 systype)


Best regards,
FOLDI Tamas
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