Package: firefox Version: 58.0.1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I am unable to run firefox under gdb, it gives out an error saying - Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... "/usr/bin/firefox": not in executable format: File format not recognized This is when firefox-esr is not running, only firefox running and have debug symbols of both versions . Some info. that might help - /home/shirish> firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 58.0.1 /home/shirish> gdb firefox GNU gdb (Debian 7.12-6+b1) 7.12.0.20161007-git Copyright (C) 2016 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 "x86_64-linux-gnu". Type "show configuration" for configuration details. For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>. Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>. For help, type "help". Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... "/usr/bin/firefox": not in executable format: File format not recognized (gdb) quit /home/shirish> which firefox /usr/bin/firefox /home/shirish> ls -l /usr/bin/firefox -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 113 Jan 24 14:18 /usr/bin/firefox /home/shirish> gdb firefox-esr GNU gdb (Debian 7.12-6+b1) 7.12.0.20161007-git Copyright (C) 2016 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 "x86_64-linux-gnu". Type "show configuration" for configuration details. For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>. Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>. For help, type "help". Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... Reading symbols from firefox-esr...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/38/c15eb0fe6a883d76452734bc4af4bceb3b6144.debug...done. done. (gdb) quit /home/shirish> dpkg -l firefox-dbgsym Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-======================================-========================-========================-================================================================================= ii firefox-dbgsym 58.0.1-1 amd64 debug symbols for firefox -- Package-specific info: -- Addons package information -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IN.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IN.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages firefox depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.4 ii fontconfig 2.12.6-0.1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.26.1-3 ii libc6 2.26-4 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.15.10-1 ii libcairo2 1.15.10-1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.2-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-2 ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4 ii libffi6 3.2.1-8 ii libfontconfig1 2.12.6-0.1 ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-1 ii libgcc1 1:7.2.0-19 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.54.3-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.26-2 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-1 ii libhunspell-1.6-0 1.6.2-1 ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3 ii libnspr4 2:4.18-1 ii libnss3 2:3.35-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.14-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.22.0-1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-5 ii libstdc++6 7.2.0-19 ii libvpx4 1.6.1-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxcb-shm0 1.12-1 ii libxcb1 1.12-1 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 ii procps 2:3.3.12-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 firefox recommends no packages. Versions of packages firefox suggests: ii fonts-lmodern 2.004.5-3 ii fonts-stix [otf-stix] 1.1.1-4 ii libcanberra0 0.30-6 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.16-2 pn mozplugger <none> -- no debconf information -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
