On 5/18/22 23:57, Jerry James wrote:
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 9:41 PM Jerry James loganjerry@gmail.com wrote:
I just updated my home machine to F36. Now, when I try to debug a Fedora-built package after installing the appropriate debuginfo packages with dnf, I get:
(No debugging symbols found in .gnu_debugdata for [path to ELF object])
for every library. Is debuginfod the only supported way to get usable debuginfo now? I thought it was an optional convenience feature. I would rather manage the debuginfo with dnf.
Some experimentation shows that there is some magic threshold at play here. After I installed debuginfo for a bunch of libraries I am *not* interested in, GDB started loading debuginfo for the one of interest. So is there some kind of dependency between debuginfo packages that must be satisfied before the debuginfo can be used? I never encountered this on F35, so I'm not sure what the rules are now.
I think gdb starts loading debuginfo in background, and it takes a while so you started seeing it after a delay.
I am not sure how to check the progress of this background retrieval; I don't remember any messages even while in gdb