On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
However, note that your current problem may be related to something you've pulled from a 3rd party repository so you should avoid blindly repeating the process. I'd install/update the package list from the
My system had been running for a while without my adding anything new. My expectation is that something glitched and changed something in a manner that had gdb waiting for something that will never happen. I'll never know.
But did yum update any packages? There's a certain amount of risk in having uncoordinated 3rd party repos enabled when you do updates even if you aren't intentionally adding/changing anything. Does /var/log/yum.log show anything around the time your problem started.
I'm not willing to put in another week of effort out of a probably vain hope of discovery.
You might try running 'rpm -Va' to see if there are any surprises in the list of differences between the current state and what was installed.