Today I ran into a weird problem. I could not attach to my own process with gdb. The process ran under my UID, but gdb refused to attach. This is a problem of wrong permissions, although /proc/[pid]/status looked ok:
... Uid: 1000 1000 1000 1000 Gid: 1000 1000 1000 1000 ...
I am the owner but cannot attach? Well, I launched gdb as root and could attach. Strange. Without digging deeper into this, my dirty workaround was this:
sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/gdb |
Update: Thanks to Mario, who pointed out, that the reason is the Kernel hardening stuff build into the Ubuntu kernel. See his comment how to fix the problem permanently.