[Bug 306835] Re: vmware-guestd crashing

[Travis Hegner]

I've been trying to follow Adar's intructions, but the vmware-guestd
binary in the open-vm-tools-dbg package has some other error causing it
not to run at all.

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong though as I'm not familiar with using
gdb.

thegner at tmh-dev1:/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin$ sudo ./vmware-guestd --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid
./vmware-guestd: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
thegner at tmh-dev1:/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin$ 

And attempting this binary with gdb (if because of symbols I can't run
it directly):

thegner at tmh-dev1:/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin$ sudo gdb ./vmware-guestd
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) b Panic
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8087c60: file panic.c, line 53.
(gdb) enable
(gdb) run --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid
Starting program: /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/vmware-guestd --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid
/bin/bash: /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/vmware-guestd: cannot execute binary file
/bin/bash: /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/vmware-guestd: Success

Program exited with code 01.
warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.
You can't do that without a process to debug.
(gdb) 

Is there something that I am doing wrong, or is the debug binary not
compiled properly?

Thanks,

Travis

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