Help debugging

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> Here is the main thread:
> (gdb) thread 1
> [Switching to thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff784f740 (LWP 24041))]
> #0  0x00007ffff7a41ef7 in __nptl_setxid () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007ffff7a41ef7 in __nptl_setxid () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #1  0x00007ffff7939f6a in setgroups () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #2  0x00007ffff7939e96 in initgroups () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #3  0x000055555556ee19 in sandbox (droproot=<optimized out>, 
>     user=0x5555555bc260 "ntp", group=0x5555555bc280 "ntp", chrootdir=0x0, 
>     want_dynamic_interface_tracking=<optimized out>)
>     at ../../ntpd/ntp_sandbox.c:175
> #4  0x0000555555572c61 in ntpdmain (argc=4, argv=0x7fffffffdb98)
>     at ../../ntpd/ntpd.c:903
> #5  0x0000555555572eb7 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>)
>     at ../../ntpd/ntpd.c:422
> (gdb) 
> 
> That doesn't make sense.  It's long past the initialization stage.
> 
> Anybody familiar with debugging this sort of thing?

I am.

That "optimized out" tells me you should reconfigure with --enable-debug-gdb
and rebuild.  You are likely to get saner behavior then.
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