784085 - run-gdb: attaching to child process doesn't find symbols

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

Attachment: jeff's patch

My problem: I have made a debug build of B2G. I want to debug the child process, plugin-container. If I just do ./run-gdb attach pid where pid is the child process, it doesn't find any symbols. Attaching to the parent process does find the symbols.

Attaching a patch by Jeff that fixes the problem for me. We don't know why was it working without this for him.

Comment 1

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G/issues/94

Comment 2

[Dave Hylands [:dhylands]]

I merged your change in as https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G/pull/95

Comment 3

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

Thanks. To be clear, that patch was by Jeff Muizelaar. Do you understand why that was apparently working without this patch for other people than me?

Comment 4

[Dave Hylands [:dhylands]]

I'm not sure. It worked for me without the change either. I suspect it has something to do with the build environment. I run native linux.

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on