closing this rather old issue. sorry for not addressing this earlier. Please could you recheck with the recent 14.04 LTS or 14.10 releases and reopen the issue if the problem persists?
** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gdb in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563361 Title: 'Cannot find new threads: generic error' when debugging certain applications Status in “gdb” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: gdb When debugging bug #423252 I noticed that GDB looses control over the target application if it executes getpwnam when using libnss-ldap. GDB displays the following error message: [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Cannot find new threads: generic error It is impossible to continue to work with the application after the above message has been displayed. For example, trying to execute 'next' results in the following error message: Cannot execute this command while the selected thread is running. I suspect this could actually be a kernel bug rather than a GDB bug (I've seen a fair deal of ptrace breakage at work), but I have no way of verifying that at the moment. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: gdb 7.1-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-20.30-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-20-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Apr 14 22:35:03 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gdb To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdb/+bug/563361/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp