ggdb broken in Sierra

Hi,

I have a nigthmare! Nothing work on my MacBook Air with Sierra 10.12.5.

Using Lazarus 1.6.4 with FPC 3.0.2

GDB goes to "-exec-run" ",msg= "During startup program terminated with signal ?, Unknown signal.""

~/.gdbinit contains

set startup-with-shell off

Certificate in System is Ok.

brew update && brew upgrade gdb returns:

Already up-to-date.

Error: gdb 8.0 already installed.

Please any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

Abner

Hi there! Sorry, gdb newbie here… =)

Could you please elaborate a little bit more? I mean, how do I properly set this option in .gdbinit?

Thanks in advance.

and this line goes into a newly created .gdbinit file, that has to exist under /usr/local/Cellar/gdb/7.12/bin/ ?

(yes, I've built gdb using brew.)

Thank you very much! Will try that.

This is how I easily fixed the issue.

See video instructions here

1. Quit gdb

2. Using your text editor e.g. Sublime Text, save a file called “.gdbinit” [Exclude the quotation marks] in your user folder.

3. In the file add the following: “set startup-with-shell off” [Exclude the quotation marks]

4. Save the file

5. gdb should now work

Sources

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7684629?start=0&tstart=0

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9573683/where-is-gdbinit-is-located-and-how-c an-i-edit-it/13637929

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Starting.html

Dear Salamit and PNW Guy,

Thank you very much for your attention.

But I forgot to mention that I'm on Netbeans, and I'm afraid that's the reason I'm still stuck on an error that pops up, saying "During startup program terminated with signal ?, Unknown signal.", when the debugger is triggered.

And I can't figure out why this is happening...

Thanks again for all the help given.

My best

Already did that. Was working totally fine before Sierra…

Is anyone still having this issue? I have followed these simple instructions and am still getting an error. In my case I get the following error after the .gdbinit file is modified: "During startup program terminated with signal ?, unknown signal". I have tried a few things that I have seen online to attempt to resolve this. First was just to modify the .gdbinit file. When only that step is performed I get a codesign error. So then I follow the steps to create a certificate. Now I have the cert and the set startup-with-shell off .gdbinit file modification and the error quoted above happens. When I remove the entry in the .gdbinit file, the error stays the same. This is with using netbeans 8.2 on mac os 10.12.1

I was, until last Thursday. But then I updated gdb via Brew (it downloaded version 7.12_1 specific for Sierra), codesigned the binary again with the same 'gdb-cert' certificate I've created earlier, and now everything is working fine again.

Thanks Gondimc, that worked. The latest stable version on the gdb project page was the issue. The repo brew is pointing to must have a patch to sort it out.