There is a lot here, I hope its what you need. I tried to follow the commands you gave, but I do not have much experience using gdb, so I'm not sure I did it properly. Let me know if you need more. GNU gdb 6.4-debian Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu". Attaching to process 9594 Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-panel...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. 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(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) continue Continuing. Program exited with code 01. (gdb) thread apply all bt (gdb)