why is "gdb /home/gat/JAVA/JDK16/jdk1.6.0/bin/java" so broken?

[U. George]

Show me the 'funny'. It would be real neat to understand why 
libthread_db fails before surmising.

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:27:44PM -0500, U. George wrote:
> 
>>After some 60min of running javasoft's java, the program finally dies of 
>>a segfault. I have been trying, and apparently for several years now, 
>>according to the gdb bug base, to get GDB to work with java & threads.
>>Version 6.4 does not work any better.
>>there is something wrong in libthread_db.so. I'm not yet willing to just 
>>replace the libs, as this may affect the 'heap' bug that shows itself 
>>randomly.
>>
>>So whats goin on with gdb?
> 
> 
> Probably the JDK does something funny with threads that bypasses
> libthread_db.
>