http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169468
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169468#c9
pgnd _
So, to me it looks like you have a broken system python. I cannot comment on the root cause, but it seems increasingly likely that there is no gdb issue here.
hm, unclear on the provenance of those packages in system python -- as being too old a version, I never explicitly use it for dev. and, I never installed them explicitly. nice catch. some remnants from a python-app install? need to dig; they're installed on a number of Leap machines. looks like something 'needed' a more modern Paste mod, which, from pypi (pip install) is the 3.x version ... that said, I manually mv'd ALL the non-distro-package-originated files in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages out of the way in order to test. now, from 'within' my v3.8-dev pyenv pyenv global 3.8-dev python -V Python 3.8.2+ pyenv's gdb gdb --version GNU gdb (GDB) 10.0.50.20200414-git Copyright (C) 2020 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. and system's gdb, /usr/bin/gdb --version GNU gdb (GDB; openSUSE Leap 15.1) 8.3.1 Copyright (C) 2019 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. with NO error. so, appears you're correct -- 'broken' system python. WHY broken eludes me, for the moment. I _suspect_ initially bad alternative python installs, prior to current pyenv's reliable usage; or, possibly a local dev effort. if so, sounds safest to ensure that system-installed python is never 'touched' with any pip-, or otherwise dev-, module installs -- at least without a venv in place. for my multi-version needs, as here, that's solved by using pyenv+pipenv so, closing as PEBKAC(-ish); feel free to reopen if/as further warranted. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.