Yes,I have tried that.Both GUI session and TTY session work very well.
2012/8/12 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> From: qq510371827 <qq510371827@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:11:33 +0800
>
> emacs 24.1.1(i686-pc-linux-gnu),GTK+ Version 2.24.10 of 2012-07-17 on
> berkelium, modified by Debian
> GNU gdb (ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu2)
> ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Did you try this in a GUI session or in a TTY?  If in a GUI session,
can you try in a TTY session ("emacs -Q -nw")?