Re: Bad core files with 2.6.19-rc2

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 12:53:41PM +1000, Steve Youngs wrote:

> gdb doesn't like any core dump file generated while running
> 2.6.19-rc2.  If I `kill -SIGSEGV $some_app_pid' and then...
> 
>   gdb some_app core
> 
> I get...
> 
>   warning: Couldn't find general-purpose registers in core file.
>   #0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> 
> But if I gdb attach to a running process and then kill -SIGSEGV
> the process, it produces a normal trace without problem.

It seems this issue should be fixed in Linus' tree now.

Can you confirm it's fixed?

TIA
Adrian

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