Not in executable format: File format not recognized GDB - c++

I'm tried to debug my binary file (called click) with gdb.
When I run
gdb ./click
I have the following error
GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.10-1ubuntu2) 7.10
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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 "x86_64-linux-gnu".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
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"/home/student/Desktop/./click": not in executable format: File format not recognized
The outupt of:
uname -a
is
Linux student 4.2.0-36-lowlatency #42-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Thu May 12 23:39:42 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
And if I run
file click
I get this output:
click: ERROR: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 error reading (Invalid argument)
Any ideas?

click: ERROR: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 error reading (Invalid argument)
Your file is simply corrupt.
Possibly it is truncated (did you run out of disk space when linking it?), or you transferred it over FTP from another machine in ASCII mode (use binary mode instead).

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after gdb read symbols from python3.11 done,gdb is stuck, not responding to whatever command is entered

### this is gdb's output.
***
gdb python3.11
GNU gdb (Debian 7.12-6) 7.12.0.20161007-git
Copyright (C) 2016 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 "x86_64-linux-gnu".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
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Reading symbols from python3.11...done.
***
I can't enter any commands after this.
### this is gcc and gdb version.
***
gcc --version
gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
gdb --version
GNU gdb (Debian 7.12-6) 7.12.0.20161007-git
Copyright (C) 2016 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 "x86_64-linux-gnu".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
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<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.
For help, type "help".
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***
### this is linux version
***
uname -a
Linux xxxxxxxx.net 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/debian_version
9.13
***
### python3.11 configure.ac
only add "-gdwarf-4" to OPT , because my gdb does not support dwarf5
### build command
***
./configure --prefix="MY_PATH" -enable-optimizations LLVM_PROFDATA="/usr/lib/llvm-14/bin/llvm-profdata" --with-lto --with-openssl="MY_PATH" --with-openssl-rpath="MY_PATH"
make && make install
***
I Compile Python3.11 without any changes, but GDB does not support DWARF5, so I added "-gdwarf-4" to build. Then I use gdb, gdb gets stuck。 I want use gdb to debug my program 。 I have tried build python2.7 with '-gdwarf-4' ,and the result is same。
Before command 'make install' , gdb is not stuck when I use command 'gdb python3.11'

Getting GDB 8.0.1 to work in CLion on OSX High Sierra 10.13.4

Long story short - LLDB doesn't debug my program properly, so I need to use GDB on my Mac to debug a c++ project. Steps I've taken:
Install GDB 8.0.1 and 8.1 via brew/macports (ie try all options)
Codesign the binary properly.
Start the mac in restart mode and typing csrutil enable --without debug
Choose the custom GDB executable in Clion.
Write in the .gdbinit file located in the home directory set startup-with-shell off
When I go to debug in Clion, in the debugger window it reads:
GNU gdb (GDB) 8.0.1
Copyright (C) 2017 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 "x86_64-apple-darwin17.2.0".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
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<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
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[New Thread 0x2203 of process 1208]
warning: unhandled dyld version (15)
In the console window it just prints the path of the executable and then hangs there until eventually it says 'command timed out'.
Any ideas would be massively appreciated.

GDB not able to recognise executable which is unstripped

I am using GDB executable in my linux machine to debug my executable(rild).
My Executable details are as below :-
rild: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), BuildID[md5/uuid]=d100d90599eb3764018356c9ef3e1840, not stripped
however when I am running the command
./arm-linux-androideabi-gdb ~/android_gdb/system_bin/rild
I am getting follwing error:-
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6
Copyright (C) 2013 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 "--host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=arm-linux-android".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://source.android.com/source/report-bugs.html>...
"/home/user/android_gdb/system_bin/rild": not in executable format: File format not recognized
I can see that GDB is also 64 bit version and the executable ELF is also unstripped, 64 bit. but still its not working.
rild: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV),
This is an aarch64 64-bit ARM binary.
This GDB was configured as "--host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=arm-linux-android"
This GDB is a 64-bit x86_64 binary, configured to debug 32-bit ARM binaries.
The fact that GDB itself is a 64-bit binary is irrelevant. What matters is what target it is configured to debug. You need a different GDB, configured with --target=aarch64-linux-android.

GDB 7.7 symbols error SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX

We have upgraded our C compiler to 4.5.3 and are now experiencing problems when trying to debug the server binary on solaris (works fine on linux rhel5 and AIX 6.1)
Below is the log of a debugging attempt. Any help would be appreciated.
-bash-3.00$ gdb myServer
Python Exception exceptions.ImportError No module named gdb:
warning:
Could not load the Python gdb module from `/usr/local/share/gdb/python'.
Limited Python support is available from the _gdb module.
Suggest passing --data-directory=/path/to/gdb/data-directory.
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.7
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
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 "sparc-sun-solaris2.10".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For help, type "help".
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BFD: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.24.51.20140206 assertion fail elf.c:1727
Reading symbols from myServer...BFD: /data3/develop/myServer symbol number 7 references nonexistent SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX section
Can't read symbols from /data3/develop/myServer: Invalid operation
(gdb)
BFD: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.24.51.20140206 assertion fail elf.c:1727
This is a bug in gnu binutils. You should report it here.

cross compiled core dump analysis [duplicate]

I'm trying to read an ARM core file on my Linux desktop, but it seems not to be able to figure out my core file. Is there any way I can instruct gdb what type my core file is?
$ file ~/daemon
./daemon: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, not stripped
$ file ~/core
./core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file ARM, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from './daemon -v -v -v -v -e 10 -t foo'
$ gdb-multiarch ~/daemon ~/core
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5-ubuntu
Copyright (C) 2012 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 "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from ./daemon...done.
"./core" is not a core dump: File format is ambiguous
(gdb) core-file ~/core
"./core" is not a core dump: File format is ambiguous
The generating platform is armv4, which gdb-multiarch claim to support, according to the "set architecture" list.
EDIT: To clarify, my desktop machine running gdb is "x86_64-linux-gnu", namely an 64-bit Intel Ubuntu box.
This may help:
$ gdb-multiarch
...
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
(gdb) set gnutarget elf32-littlearm
(gdb) file daemon
...
(gdb) target core core
...
(gdb)
The following is relevant only if your desktop (where you are trying to run gdb-multiarch) is x86.
Gdb is a debugger. As such it will not be able to debug a foreign architecture executable on your x86 desktop machine because you cannot run arm code on x86 processor. You can however debug it remotely using gdb-server which will run on arm machine.
Is your desktop arm or x86?