Quoting Bill Studenmund,

> Ok. I checked out the man page, and I've basically done that already. It
> says how to get the libraries, and to set up the /etc/ld.so.cache (which
> an error told me about :-)

> My problem now is that a number of program seem to drop core. I've brought
> over a version of gdb from linux, but it down't seem to help. Part of the
> problem is that I've only used kernel debugging, not normal debugging.

It's no use trying to use the Linux gdb on a binary; it probably wants
to do things like using their proc filesystem to control execution, etc.

Your better chance to see what is happening is to use ktrace/kdump
in this case.

- Frank