Re: kern/40594: gdb does not work on 5.0 RC2

[Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40594; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: ad%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/40594: gdb does not work on 5.0 RC2
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:10:46 +0200

 On Sun Feb 22 2009 at 21:45:02 +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  The issue appears to be provoked by the shell spawned by gdb to start
 >  the inferior process; depending on what you have in your shell startup
 >  files the hang may or may not occur. In my case the problem seems to
 >  be tickled by
 
 Oh man, that's evil!  I tracked it down to a bunch of stuff in .aliases:
        if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
 
 Knowing this workaround, I can run programs in gdb again.  Thanks!!