You are correct, gdb was attached. Included is a new trace. Although it too looks a little strange - very short and without symbols being loaded or read. Maybe this is normal. It does show the crash and the reason (missing file). Hopefully this trace is good.
** Attachment added: "full gdb trace" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4715744/fixed_gdb_stack_trace.txt -- time-admin crashes at launch https://launchpad.net/bugs/58065 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs