Re: ddd hangs on start-up with remote dbx

[Arnaud Desitter]

Hi,

Can you try to update ddd to the latest version ?

Cheers,
Arnaud

> 
> I'm running ddd locally on Linux (Redhat 7.0), and I'm trying to use
> it with a remote dbx session running (by ssh) on a Sun.  When I start
> up ddd, it just hangs after reading some shared libraries.  The
> program I'm trying to debug is just a "hello, world" program, and dbx
> works fine with it when I run dbx directly from the command line on
> the Sun.
> 
> I saw in the list archives basically the same problem posted by
> someone else about a year ago, but there was no answer.  Anyone know
> what I'm doing wrong?  For various reasons, I can't just switch from
> dbx to gdb.
> 
> Here's the output from "ddd --check-configuration":
> 
> Checking for X11 library directory... /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
> Checking for XKeysymDB... /usr/share/xemacs-21.1.12/etc/XKeysymDB
> No configuration problems found.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Here's the information for the remote host:
> 
> sundev2:~% uname -a
> SunOS sundev2 5.8 Generic_108528-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire
> sundev2:~% dbx -V    
> Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Dbx Debugger 6.1 2000/09/12
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Here's the ddd trace:
> 
> DDD 3.1.6 (i686-pc-linux-gnu), Copyright (C) 1999 TU Braunschweig.
> Compiled with GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release), GNU libc 
> 2.1
> Requires X11R6, Xt11R6, Motif 1.2 (GNU LessTif 0.88 1)
> Includes DDD core, manual, app-defaults, XPM 3.4.10, Athena Panner
> Built 1999-08-11 by Alec Habig <address@hidden>.
> $  ddd --debugger /opt/SUNWspro/bin/dbx --dbx --trace --host 
> sundev2.bloomberg.com /home/aaron/tmp/hello
> +  ssh sundev2.bloomberg.com /bin/sh -c 
> ''\''DISPLAY=${DISPLAY-'\''\'\'''\''hecate.bfr.co.il:0.0'\''\'\'''\''}; 
> export DISPLAY; exec /opt/SUNWspro/bin/dbx 
> '\''\'\'''\''/home/aaron/tmp/hello'\''\'\'''\'''\'''
> #  Hello, world!
> #  Starting DBX...
> #  Running DBX (pid 5636, tty /dev/pts/2)...
> #  Current language: c/c++
> <- "Reading hello\n"
> <- "Reading ld.so.1\n"
> <- "Reading libc.so.1\n"
> <- "Reading libdl.so.1\n"
>    "Reading libc_psr.so.1\n"
> #  Running DBX (pid 5636, tty /dev/pts/2)...Exit 255.
> Exit 255
> #  Thanks for using DDD 3.1.6!
> 

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