remotely debugging muti-threaded applicaton did not work with gdb 6.3.50.20050725-cvs

["Michael Zhang" <michael dot gd dot zhang at gmail dot com>]

Hi there,

I have been battling with this problem for a week now and searched
all the available information ( GDB manual, gdb mailing list, etc.)
but unfortunately could not find an answer. Here is my setup.

- Host : x86 running FC1 with linux 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
- Target : mips le running linux 2.4.17
- gdb 6.3.50.20050725-cvs and its included gdbserver (all cross-built
for mips processor)
- libc library 2.2.3 ( most of the shared library bear this version )

Debugging problem:

The gdb on the host can talk to the gdbserver on the target and I did
not forget to set "solib-absolute-prefix". If I set breakpoints before
the multiple threads are spawned, I could step through the code when
the breakpoint was hit. However, once the application finished
creating threads and if I stop the program to step through, it won't
step and alway stuck in libc.so.6. The worst is all the threads are
getting killed. And "info threads" never returns anything just
reporting that the gdbserver could not get thread list.

Any ideas even though it might have bee asked before. I am basically
at my wit's end.

Cheers,

Michael