Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:11:12 +0200 (WET) From: Andris Pavenis To: srobinson AT prognet DOT com cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: GDB hangs in dosemu...help! In-Reply-To: <7801mv$6ds$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 srobinson AT prognet DOT com wrote: > Hi there. > > I am having trouble running gdb under dosemu. When I run, the standard > opening banner comes up, but the prompt accepts no input, hanging the entire > dos session. > > Here are the vital statistics: > > linux(upgraded from RH5.1) 2.1.132 (vw86 compiled into the kernel) > dosemu 0.66.7 > gdb 4.16 > > I have tried running dos under the debugger, but it doesn't seem to like that > and tends to segfault before encountering this problem. And dosdbg does not > report any problems. I am running with DPMS turned on (gdb won't start > without it) and the memory I give the server does not seem to effect the > problem. Has anyone tried these new versions together? Can anyone advise of > the more recent combinations that have worked for them? > I cannot say anything about dosemu-0.66.7 as it is very old and I'm not going to test it at all. At least official binaries of DJGPP port of gdb-4.16 is running for me under DOSEMU-0.99.5 (Linux-2.2.0-pre6, egcs-1.1.1, etc.). If You don't want to mess with development versions of dosemu, then try to upgrade to 0.98.5 (see http://www.dosemu.org for more details) Andris