Why gdb is showing message "Missing separate debuginfos"?

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• gdb (GNU Debugger)

Issue

• gdb command is not working on Server and I am getting the below error.

Raw

Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install glibc-2.12-1.47.el6.x86_64 libaio-0.3.107-10.el6.x86_64 libgcc-4.4.6-3.el6.x86_64 libstdc++-4.4.6-3.el6.x86_64 libuuid-2.17.2-12.4.el6.x86_64 nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.9-11.el6.x86_64

Resolution

• Install the debuginfo packages as listed by gdb message as below with command debuginfo-install

Raw

# debuginfo-install glibc-2.12-1.47.el6.x86_64 libaio-0.3.107-10.el6.x86_64 libgcc-4.4.6-3.el6.x86_64 libstdc++-4.4.6-3.el6.x86_64 libuuid-2.17.2-12.4.el6.x86_64 nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.9-11.el6.x86_64

Root Cause

• To debug any application need it source code and debugging symbols installed on the system to get more information with respect to individual frames in the stack.
• So debuginfo packages of all the dependencies of the binary trying to debug need to be installed.