On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com