Comment 7 for bug 219527

Hmm, it gets more bizzare:

After installing libc6-dbgsym, libnss-ldap-dbgsym, libc6-i686-dbgsym and bash-dbgsym, I geht just this:

root@sauron:~# gdb bash
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /bin/bash
root@sauron:~# su - po[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Error while reading shared library symbols:
Cannot find new threads: generic error
Cannot find new threads: generic error
(gdb)

Ciao

Martin