why is "gdb /home/gat/JAVA/JDK16/jdk1.6.0/bin/java" so broken?

["U. George" <gatgul at gatworks dot com>]

After some 60min of running javasoft's java, the program finally dies of 
a segfault. I have been trying, and apparently for several years now, 
according to the gdb bug base, to get GDB to work with java & threads.
Version 6.4 does not work any better.
there is something wrong in libthread_db.so. I'm not yet willing to just 
replace the libs, as this may affect the 'heap' bug that shows itself 
randomly.

So whats goin on with gdb?


> [gat@MyLaptop ~]$ gdb /home/gat/JAVA/JDK16/jdk1.6.0/bin/java
> GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.84rh)
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> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found)
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/libthread_db.so.1".
>
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /home/gat/JAVA/JDK16/jdk1.6.0/bin/java
> Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> Loaded system supplied DSO at 0xd46000
> (no debugging symbols found)
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread 2251072 (LWP 2428)]
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> Cannot find user-level thread for LWP 2428: generic error
> (gdb)