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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:31:04 -0500
From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: glib errors with latest gdb
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On 2014-08-13 09:28, Ken Brown wrote:
> I'm getting errors with the latest gdb when trying to debug programs
> that depend on glib.  Here's an example, run from an xterm window:
>
> $ gdb /usr/bin/gvim
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.8
> [...]
> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gvim...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /usr/bin/gvim
> [New Thread 4860.0x1b44]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/bin/cyggobject-2.0-0.dll-gdb.py",
> line 9, in <module>
>      from gobject import register
>    File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/gobject.py", line 3, in <module>
>      import gdb.backtrace
> ImportError: No module named backtrace

This is actually an upstream issue due to an API change in gdb-7.7:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623552

I'm building a glib2.0 update now that includes the latest upstream 
changes for the gdb scripts, which should fix this error message.

Thanks for reporting,

Yaakov


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