Disco - debug symbols not working since binutils 2.32 (fixed)

[Sebastien Bacher]

Hey there,

Just as a follow up, the gdb update which is in disco-proposed since
today fixes the problem (without having to rebuild the packages which
had the issue)

Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher

Le 13/02/2019 à 23:41, Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> Hey there,
>
> I'm sending that email as a FYI after having spent some time today
> figuring out why a recent gnome-control-center/glib segfault in disco
> was consistently giving failing-retrace-reports, it looks like gdb in
> disco is now failing to load the debug symbols from packages which have
> been built with the new binutils.
>
> The output looks like that
>
> 'BFD:
> /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/2a/4367ded6c5ba5f464c762f1576874694053c71.debug:
> unable to initialize decompress status for section .debug_aranges
>
> warning: File
> "/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/2a/4367ded6c5ba5f464c762f1576874694053c71.debug"
> has no build-id, file skipped'
>
> I opened a bug about it
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1815774
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastien Bacher
>
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