hi this is the command line binary string that is reference to in the bug gen-report as 5951
67 69 73 74 65 72 36 34 5F 74 68 72 65 61 64 5F 61 gister64_thread_a this is what i can gather from the log # 0 kernel system call - enter stack -leaving user mode and entering kernel process # 1 waitpid call is inconclusive as to the function error such as The waitpid function suspends execution of the current process until a child as specified by the pid argument has exited, or until a signal is delivered whose action is to terminate the current process or to call a signal handling function. If a child as requested by pid has already exited by the time of the call (a so-called "zombie" pro- cess), the function returns immediately. Any system resources used by the child are freed. The value of pid can be one of: < -1 which means to wait for any child process whose process group ID is equal to the absolute value of -1 which means to wait for any child process whose process group ID is equal to the absolute value of pid. -1 which means to wait for any child process; this is the same behaviour which wait exhibits. 0 which means to wait for any child process whose process group ID is equal to that of the calling process. > 0 which means to wait for the child whose process ID is equal to the value of pid. The value of options is an exclusive OR of zero or more of the following constants: as well 0xb72876cb is not found in the binary source using bless # 3 Here is a minimal example program. It uses the alarm() function to limit the time spent waiting to open a file; this is useful if the file is for a serial device that may not be turned on, which would normally cause the os.open() to hang indefinitely. The solution is to set a 5-second alarm before opening the file; if the operation takes too long, the alarm signal will be sent, and the handler raises an exception. import signal, os def handler(signum, frame): print 'Signal handler called with signal', signum raise IOError, "Couldn't open device!" # Set the signal handler and a 5-second alarm signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, handler) signal.alarm(5) # This open() may hang indefinitely fd = os.open('/dev/ttyS0', os.O_RDWR) signal.alarm(0) # Disable the alarm im really unsure if its system related because of the cpu interface or if its more toward these lines It means that GDB thinks that a signal handler has been invoked, and that the frames above it are in the signal handler context. If that's incorrect, you've found a bug in GDB. this may all be a waste of space as i am a noob and ever yet unlearned at this code but thats all i have time to do today peace =] ** Changed in: xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None => xubuntu-meta -- unsure of nature xubuntu ISSUE https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209468 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs