From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20021216 Description of problem: I run gdb xmms and I get the error below dlopen failed on 'libthread_db.so.1' - /lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1: undefined symbol: assert GDB will not be able to debug pthreads. This is after upgrading glibc to 2.3.1-30. Before I upgraded I had a similar error about he same library in a different location and with a different undefined symbol, which is why I upgraded. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install glibc-2.3.1-30 2. install gdb 3. install xmms 4. run startx 5. run gdb xmms Actual Results: dlopen failed on 'libthread_db.so.1' - /lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1: undefined symbol: assert Expected Results: no error about the library and for it to be able to debu pthreads Additional info: This is a Phoebe system.
Fix just posted to libc-hacker, will be fixed in glibc-2.3.1-33.
glibc-2.3.1-34 gdb xmms dlopen failed on 'libthread_db.so.1' - /lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1: undefined symbol: ps_get_thread_area
Fixed with 2.3.1-36