问题
I am debugging a multi-threaded application with gdb, but when I start the program in gdb I get the warning:
warning: Unable to find libthread_db matching inferior's thread library, thread debugging will not be available.
I can still debug, but I can't debug anything other than the main thread. I have read forums that suggest installing the packages libthread-db1 and glibc-dbg, but this does not correct the problem for me.
On my machine I have the 3 files /lib/libthread_db.so.1, /lib/.debug/libthread_db-1.0.so, and /lib/libthread_db-1.0.so. I tried creating symbolic links in /lib with the name libthread_db.so, one time pointing at the /lib/libthread_db.so.1 file, and another time pointing at the /lib/libthread_db-1.0.so file, and also I created the symbolic link /lib/.debug/libthread_db.so pointing to /lib/.debug/libthread_db-1.0.so, all with no luck.
In gdb I have tried setting libthread-db-search-path to /lib (with the symlink once set to libthread_db.so.1, and once to libthread_db-1.0.so, and also set to /lib/.debug.
Any suggestions? I am using Angstrom Linux v2.6.39 for the BeagleBoard-xm.
回答1:
warning: Unable to find libthread_db matching inferior's thread library
This means that your /lib/libthread_db.so.1 does not match your /lib/libpthread.so.0. Such mismatch could be the result of you installing different versions of libc and libthread_db packages, or updating one or the other outside of the package management system. It could also be an error in your packages (i.e. they may not be built correctly).
You should ignore /lib/.debug/* -- that is not the library you are looking for.
回答2:
You are correct in trying to use
set libthread-db-search-path [path]
however, it seems you have still not pointed it at a version of libthread_db that is compatible with the pthreads library you're using.
First, check which pthread library you're linked to using ldd:
ldd your_executable
then make sure the libthread-db-search-path points to a location that has a compatible version of libthread_db with whatever libpthread you're getting. It could be that you're dynamic linker path is getting a different pthread library than you expect.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11585472/unable-to-debug-multi-threaded-application-with-gdb