Threads GDB 5.2 Linux Help Needed

[Glenn Chisholm <glc@cisco.com>]

G'Day,
         I am currently working on a system that has gdb 5.2 when I debug a 
threaded program it acts like I have no thread support. However if I take 
the exact same gdb binary and the same program onto another host it works.

         Now I realize that I could be hitting 1000 different things 
machine hopping however here it is on a working system:

 > ./gdb a.out
GNU gdb 5.2
Copyright 2002 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 "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /local/gchishol/gdb/bin/a.out
[New Thread 1024 (LWP 15070)]
[New Thread 2049 (LWP 15079)]
[New Thread 1026 (LWP 15080)]
[New Thread 2051 (LWP 15081)]

Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.

Here it is on the non working system:

# ./gdb a.out
GNU gdb 5.2
Copyright 2002 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 "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /local/local1/core_dir/a.out

Program received signal SIG32, Real-time event 32.
0x2585ede6 in sigsuspend () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)

For the life of me I can not work out what is happening. The libthread_db 
seems to be available on both hosts. When I strace I can see the non 
working system open the library on both hosts. In this case it is the 
pthread.c from the gdb testsuite. The gdb is 5.2 built on the working 
system, the other does not have a compiler. Am I missing a library? A clue?

Can some one please point me at a starting point to get this working? Where 
should I look what libraries should I check? What debug can I watch? Anyone 
got a beer?

glenn