[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[meta license="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]] In order to [[debug|debugging]] translators and being able to step into glibc during it, you need the `hurd-dbg` and `libc0.3-dbg` packages installed. Then start the translator like `settrans -P /foo /usr/bin/env LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH=/usr/lib/debug /hurd/foofs`. The `-P` option will make it pause and you will be able to attach [[debugging/GDB]] to the process. Is starting the translator like this really needed?