$ gdb sleep GNU gdb 6.6-debian Copyright (C) 2006 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"... (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run 300 Starting program: /bin/sleep 300 (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. 0xb7f997f2 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (gdb) bt #0 0xb7f997f2 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #1 0xb7eb3e10 in __nanosleep_nocancel () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0x0804a1da in ?? () #3 0xbfe9f664 in ?? () #4 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) quit The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y $ uname -r 2.6.20-6-generic $ LC_ALL=en_US apt-cache policy linux-image-`uname -r` linux-image-2.6.20-6-generic: Installed: 2.6.20-6.8 Candidate: 2.6.20-6.8 Version table: *** 2.6.20-6.8 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status