The KDbg is not working/launching on ubuntu

Question

I am new to assembly language programming, i am reading this book Assembly step by step by Jeff Duntemann. one of his instruction was to download the KDbg for debugging the codes, however when i try to launch the code with kdbg this error occurs again and again for more than 100 times and i do not know what it is.

Example: when i run my linked file ./ExampleProgram
like this -> kdbg ExampleProgram i get the following error :

MNG error 11: function is invalid at this point ; chunk MHDR; subcode 0:0
MNG error 11: function is invalid at this point ; chunk MHDR; subcode 0:0
MNG error 11: function is invalid at this point ; chunk MHDR; subcode 0:0
MNG error 11: function is invalid at this point ; chunk MHDR; subcode 0:0
MNG error 11: function is invalid at this point ; chunk MHDR; subcode 0:0
MNG error 11: function is invalid at this point ; chunk MHDR; subcode 0:0

can some one please help me to fix this problem. i am new to assembly language programming and the gdb framework. i am using ubuntu on a virtualBox. i have searched the internet and could not find an answer why is the KDbg is not running. Your support will be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

You may find this thread helpful https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170379. It suggests to delete icon file /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdbg/icons/hicolor/22x22/actions/pulse.mng. Try and see if this solves your problem.

If it doesn't, you can find additional information and updates on this issue at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdbg/+bug/1311893. As you can see, there it clearly accepts this as a bug in kdbg package.