Linux threads and insight 6.4 / 6.5

Steven J. Hill sjhill@realitydiluted.com
Fri Jun 30 00:11:00 GMT 2006


Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> With signal 5 is a clear signal that gdbserver has not enabled thread
> support, either because of a mismatch or a problem with libthread_db
> support on your target.  When one thread hits a breakpoint, if another
> thread is running outside of debugger control, the kernel may terminate
> the entire process.
> 
Using glibc NPTL with both gdb and gdbserver compiled from the same 6.4
source and gdbserver built against the exact same NPTL libraries I get:

   Cannot find new threads: capability not available

with an eventual termination of the process. So what mismatch or problem
with libthread_db should I be looking for? Thanks.

-Steve



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