I did what you said here is the output, it seams like I might have a permission issue, I compiled it as a user, following the directions. The binary is located: /home/david/Downloads/A-svn/0ad/binaries/system/pyrogenesis_dbg [david@localhost system]$ gdb ./pyrogenesis_dbg GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-1mdv2010.1 (Mandriva Linux release 2010.1) Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-mandriva-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /home/david/Downloads/A-svn/0ad/binaries/system/pyrogenesis_dbg...done. (gdb) r Starting program: /home/david/Downloads/A-svn/0ad/binaries/system/pyrogenesis_dbg error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13) error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libenet.so.0 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libfam.so.0 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /lib/i686/librt.so.1 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /lib/libdl.so.2 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /lib/libz.so.1 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libboost_filesystem.so.1.42.0 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libboost_system.so.1.42.0 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /lib/i686/libm.so.6 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libImath.so.6 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libIlmImf.so.6 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libIex.so.6 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libHalf.so.6 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libIlmThread.so.6 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libdirectfb-1.4.so.0 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libggi.so.2 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libaa.so.1 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libjbig.so.1 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libfusion-1.4.so.0 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libdirect-1.4.so.0 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /lib/libncurses.so.5 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libgii.so.1 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libXxf86dga.so.1 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libgg.so.1 error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /usr/lib/libslang.so.2 TIMER| InitVfs: 2.05216 ms TIMER| InitScripting: 9.99675 ms error: cannot open Packages database in error: cannot open Packages database in Missing separate debug info for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 [New Thread 0xb4092b70 (LWP 463)] [New Thread 0xb7fd6b70 (LWP 464)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0831e03e in CConfigDB::Reload (this=0x8796e18, ns=CFG_SYSTEM) at ../../../source/ps/ConfigDB.cpp:338 338 if (*(lend-1) == '\r') lend--; (gdb) bt full #0 0x0831e03e in CConfigDB::Reload (this=0x8796e18, ns=CFG_SYSTEM) at ../../../source/ps/ConfigDB.cpp:338 parseOk = false value = {static npos = 4294967295, _M_dataplus = {<std::allocator<char>> = {<__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<char>> = {<No data fields>}, <No data fields>}, _M_p = 0x85bc6bc ""}} pos = 0x0 lend = 0x0 name = {static npos = 4294967295, _M_dataplus = {<std::allocator<char>> = {<__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<char>> = {<No data fields>}, <No data fields>}, _M_p = 0xbfffecc8 "(\355\377\277\376w4\b\030ny\b\001"}} buffer = {px = 0x0, pn = {pi_ = 0x879eb28}} buflen = 0 newMap = {_M_t = { _M_impl = {<std::allocator<std::_Rb_tree_node<std::pair<CStr8 const, std::vector<CParserValue, std::allocator<CParserValue> > > > >> = {<__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::_Rb_tree_node<std::pair<CStr8 const, std::vector<CParserValue, std::allocator<CParserValue> > > > >> = {<No data fields>}, <No data fields>}, _M_key_compare = {<std::binary_function<CStr8, CStr8, bool>> = {<No data fields>}, <No data fields>}, _M_header = {_M_color = std::_S_red, _M_parent = 0x0, _M_left = 0xbfffec38, _M_right = 0xbfffec38}, ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---q _M_node_count = 0}Quit (gdb) Hope this helps