cgdb freezes on startup

cgdb freezes on startup. It starts gdb, but never reaches the point where the gdb prompt is shown. This repeats on every try.

This happens on ARM with 14.04, but happened also on 13.10.

Compiling cgdb and/or gdb from source did not repeat the issue.
I.e. if using a souce-built gdb, cgdb works.
(gdb built with with './configure --pefix=/opt/gdb/ && make && make install', using the gdb_7.7.orig.tar.bz2 package).
A source-built cgdb fails with with the Ubuntu-packaged gdb, works with source-built gdb.

I opened a cgdb bug before narrowing the issue down to Ubuntus gdb package:
https://github.com/cgdb/cgdb/issues/47

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: cgdb 0.6.7-2
ProcVersionSignature:

Uname: Linux 3.8.13.16 armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: armhf
Date: Fri Aug 15 16:32:16 2014
SourcePackage: cgdb
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-07-25 (20 days ago)