I think Doug was trying to point out that this is possibly a problem with your
GDB/target and not Eclipse/CDT.
All CDT is doing is reporting the error that GDB is reporting.
Have you tried running GDB from the command line and trying to connect in the
same way? (To see a full list of all commands being sent to GDB from CDT, turn
on 'verbose console output' in your debug launch configuartion.)