On Saturday 03 November 2007, Gerhard Gaußling wrote: > You're using a 32-bit installation with a 64-bit kernel, right? > > GDB doesn't work in this configuration. It's a kernel bug; the > ptrace 32-bit emulation does not handle some operations that normal > i386 ptrace handles.
If that's the problem then using gdb on a core dump on disk should work. At least I don't see how gdb would use ptrace in that case. BTW, I also have the 64/32bit combination, and it works for me. I have linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64. Cheers, Stefan