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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:44:47 +0000 (UTC)
From: Maarten de Boer <mdeboer@iua.upf.es>
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As suggested by several people, moving to gdb 6.0 solves the problem,
so for the record.

Thanks,

Maarten

> Hello,
>
> Sorry for cross-posting, but I have a problem that I am not sure whom
> to address... Google did not reveal anything helpfull.
>
> I resently moved to kernel 2.6.0 (on Debian Sarge), and while everything
> seems to work just fine, to my surprise gdb now fails to debug
> executables that are linked against pthread:
>
> GNU gdb 5.3-debian
> [snip]
> This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...
> (gdb) b main
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x80483a4: file foo.c, line 3.
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /root/a.out
> Error while reading shared library symbols:
> Cannot find new threads: capability not available
> Cannot find user-level thread for LWP 714: capability not available
>
> With kernel 2.4.22 this problem did not occur. Do you have any idea what
> may have caused this problem, and how to solve it? If I can provide you
> with any information that could be helpfull, please let me know.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Maarten
>
> gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)
> GNU gdb 5.3-debian
> GNU libc 2.3.2
>
>
>