I have some strange problem which i started facing from yesterday.

i have used GDB many times on my system , but yesterday when i started running GDB , my dubugger is enterings the library functions code part also which is very irritating for me.
I mean if the program is having any printf or malloc calls,gdb is entering the files which have these definitions , i guess.

below is the sample code which has malloc calls.

can any body know how to solve this problem.

I am running in Ubuntu Machine.

skylab@skylab:~/CP$ gcc test.c  -g
skylab@skylab:~/CP$ gdb a.out 
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.3-0ubuntu2) 7.3-2011.08
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This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/>...
Reading symbols from /home/skylab/CP/a.out...done.
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x804841d: file test.c, line 12.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/skylab/CP/a.out 

Breakpoint 1, main () at test.c:12
12      t = malloc(4);
(gdb) s
__GI___libc_malloc (bytes=4) at malloc.c:3615
3615    malloc.c: No such file or directory.
    in malloc.c
(gdb) s
3620    in malloc.c
(gdb) s
3621    in malloc.c
(gdb) s
3622    in malloc.c
(gdb) s
malloc_hook_ini (sz=4, caller=0x8048429) at hooks.c:35
35  hooks.c: No such file or directory.
    in hooks.c
(gdb) s
36  in hooks.c
(gdb) s
37  in hooks.c
(gdb) s
ptmalloc_init () at arena.c:467
467 arena.c: No such file or directory.
    in arena.c
(gdb) s
475 in arena.c
(gdb) s
466 in arena.c
(gdb) s
ptmalloc_init () at arena.c:476
476 in arena.c
(gdb) s
511 in arena.c
(gdb) s
485 in arena.c
(gdb) s
ptmalloc_init_minimal () at arena.c:410
410 in arena.c
(gdb) s
412 in arena.c
(gdb) s
413 in arena.c
(gdb) s
414 in arena.c
(gdb) s
415 in arena.c
(gdb) s
__GI___getpagesize () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c:30
30  ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c: No such file or directory.
    in ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c
(gdb) s
35  in ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c
(gdb) 
36  in ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c
(gdb) s
__GI___getpagesize () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c:51
51  in ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c
(gdb) s
ptmalloc_init () at arena.c:519
519 arena.c: No such file or directory.
    in arena.c
(gdb) s
510 in arena.c
(gdb) s
511 in arena.c
(gdb) s
519 in arena.c
(gdb) s
485 in arena.c
(gdb) s
ptmalloc_init_minimal () at arena.c:415
415 in arena.c
(gdb) s
ptmalloc_init () at arena.c:519
519 in arena.c
(gdb) s
520 in arena.c
(gdb) s
__GI__dl_addr (address=0xb7ebdd00, info=0xbffff27c, mapp=0xbffff28c, 
    symbolp=0x0) at dl-addr.c:127
127 dl-addr.c: No such file or directory.
    in dl-addr.c
(gdb) s
129 in dl-addr.c

(gdb)

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Is this a Linux system? If so, did you install the debug kernel and such? What about your current installation of the Gnu Compiler Collection (GCC) - did you install a debuggable version of that? What seems to be happening here is that glibc is a debuggable version, but you don't have the source handy, so it will happily single step through malloc et al and give you these errors.

few days back i have installed glib2 and glib2-devel for my gstreamer application devolopment.but i am not sure that is the cause.

before that also i have some other version of glib,i have tried to uninstall the packages.

skylab@skylab:~/CP$ sudo apt-get remove glib2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package glib2
skylab@skylab:~/CP$ sudo apt-get remove glib2-devel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package glib2-devel
skylab@skylab:~/CP$ 

It seems it could not remove those, some one please help how will i make the debugger to normal state.

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