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see the beginning of the bug 204460: gdb variables for watches sometimes get created during gdb startup causing it to fail. In general it looks like gdb bug but we could try to postpone watches creation in the IDE to let gdb start correctly.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 210468 ***