[Bug 1444057] [NEW] gdb in a guest VM fails to continue

[Chris J Arges]

Public bug reported:

[Impact]

Debugging guest VMs fail due to not building package with --enable
debug.

[Test Case]

1) run qemu with the -s option
2) install qemu ddeb
3) gdb /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
(gdb) target remote localhost:1234
Remote debugging using localhost:1234
Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug//lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.21.so...done.
done.
0x000000000052c7b5 in _start () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Warning:
Cannot insert breakpoint -1.
Cannot access memory at address 0xbd260
Cannot insert breakpoint -6.
Temporarily disabling shared library breakpoints:
breakpoint #-6

[Fix]

Add --enable-debug debian/rules

** Affects: qemu (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Chris J Arges (arges)
         Status: In Progress

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris J Arges (arges)

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

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