Koala, it's not particularly stupid, if you've never used it before
there is definitely some learning curve to gdb. (Using it is actually
pretty easy, but it is
not obvious; you have to learn how.)
I think you are attaching gdb to the running process, which then gets
killed. You can probably make that work too (I don't remember, it's
been a long time since I used gdb much), but for just getting a
backtrace that's not necessary. Instead, just run gdb on the core
file which is written out after the process crashes:
In Emacs, do: M-x gdb-core and answer it's questions. It
will ask you for the path to the AOLserver executable, and for the
path to the core file. Once gdb starts up, just try "bt". Some
additional gdb commands that might help give you more info are:
(gdb) dir /web/aol4-src/aolserver
(gdb) dir /web/aol4-src/aolserver/nsd
(gdb) set height 0
(gdb) show directories
Of course, change the path names above to point to your source trees
for AOLserver.
