[Lazarus] Status of GDB and Lazarus/FPC debugging threaded apps

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 09:40 -0600, Andrew Brunner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:17 AM,  <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> wrote:
> > Well, since I exclusively work on Linux 64-bit, debugging works fine for me.
> 
> Well, if you just use the application thread I didn't have many
> problems there in a while.  My issues are with debugging the threaded
> network engine - when data arrives - app stops @ break point - I get
> to trace two or three lines (typically at least one method in from
> where I set bp)  - and the entire desktop locks up.

What happens if you kill Lazarus/gdb/your application when the desktop
freezes? Do you really have to restart gdm?

Joost