Re: emacsclient hangs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 22:04:22 -0300
> From: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com>
> 
> 2012/11/3 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> >> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 12:10:48 -0300
> >> From: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> BTW I was trying to get a backtrace, but for some reason I can't
> >> source the src/.gdbinit file, I get this all the time:
> >>
> >>     .gdbinit:21: Error in sourced command file:
> >>     No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
> >
> > Please tell how you invoke GDB, and what commands did you type inside
> > GDB since its invocation until "source .gdbinit".
> 
> I just issue source .gdbinit or even better, I just start gdb like
> this so the .gdbinit file gets sourced automatically:
> 
>      gdb -iex "set auto-load safe-path /usr:/bin:$(pwd)"

You should do this:

  gdb -iex "set auto-load safe-path /usr:/bin:$(pwd)" ./emacs

IOW, you need to tell GDB from which executable to load the debug
info, including symbols.