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

[Andrew Brunner]

Latest Ubuntu with Gdb 7.2 is working great for main threaded apps.
But I still have an issue where GDB freezes my Desktop entirely.

But I have a much better work around than my previous finding of sudo
service gdm :-)

The fix is to kill gdb and the entire session comes back.

So ctrl+alt+f2
sudo ps -A  // all jobs (required since this is different terminal)
look for process id of GDB
kill -9 proces_number_of_gdb

After killing the gdb the desktop comes back and I can restart the
process.  Someone with GDB source needs to debug the GDB with a
multi-threaded app in lazarus.  Is this at all possible?  Seems like a
classic deadlock case to me.

But someone should update the wiki - this was much quicker and safer
than restarting the desktop manager.