Unexpected error setting hardware debug registers

[Phi Debian <phi.debian@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

I just build successfully GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6

When I use it on my -g compiled program I got this

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Reading symbols from /home/phi/.../p4-a-A...done.
(gdb) r .
Starting program: /home/phi/.../p4/p4-a-A .
Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
Unexpected error setting hardware debug registers <=== problem here? ====
(gdb)

I strace'd GDB and got this
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ptrace(PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG, 8960, 0, 0x7fdd920888) = 0
ptrace(PTRACE_GETSIGINFO, 8960, 0, {si_signo=SIGTRAP, si_code=0x105, si_pid=8960
, si_uid=379, si_value={int=2968581904, ptr=0x7fb0f0f710}}) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/8960/task/8960/stat", O_RDONLY) = 7
fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f
b089e000
read(7, "8960 (p4-a-A) t 8762 8960 21289 "..., 1024) = 313
read(7, "", 1024)                       = 0
close(7)                                = 0
munmap(0x7fb089e000, 65536)             = 0
ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKTEXT, 8963, 0x7fb7fdfcc0, [0xd503201fd4200000]) = 0
ptrace(PTRACE_POKEDATA, 8963, 0x7fb7fdfcc0, 0xd503201fd65f03c0) = 0
ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, 8960, 0x1, 0x7fdd920520) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
ptrace(PTRACE_SETREGSET, 8963, 0x403, 0x7fdd920398) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argumen
t) <==================== (problem here ?) ====================
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTTOU, {SIG_IGN, [TTOU], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL, [TTOU], SA_RESTAR
T}, 8) = 0

Is this a know problem?
Thanx for any pointers.
Cheers,
Phi

PS : Dunno how to debug gdb when not having one that works, I mean I
got an earlier GDB (7.5) that don't work either, so basically I can't
debug GDB with GDB.