Re: kern/40594: gdb does not work on 5.0 RC2

[Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Sun Feb 22 2009 at 21:45:02 +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  The issue appears to be provoked by the shell spawned by gdb to start
>  the inferior process; depending on what you have in your shell startup
>  files the hang may or may not occur. In my case the problem seems to
>  be tickled by

Oh man, that's evil!  I tracked it down to a bunch of stuff in .aliases:
        if (`tty` == "/dev/console")

Knowing this workaround, I can run programs in gdb again.  Thanks!!