diff -urp ltrace-0.5/breakpoints.c ltrace-0.5-pm/breakpoints.c
--- ltrace-0.5/breakpoints.c	2009-03-02 19:43:27.000000000 -0500
+++ ltrace-0.5-pm/breakpoints.c	2009-03-02 18:46:25.000000000 -0500
@@ -98,8 +101,11 @@ void enable_all_breakpoints(struct proce
 			a = ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKTEXT, proc->pid,
 				   sym2addr(proc, proc->list_of_symbols),
 				   0);
-			if (a == 0x0)
+			if (a == 0x0) {
+				debug(2, "Not enabling breakpoints for pid %u "
+				      "yet, PLT is not populated.", proc->pid);
 				return;
+			}
 		}
 #endif
 
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ void breakpoints_init(struct process *pr
 	}
 	proc->callstack_depth = 0;
 	proc->breakpoints_enabled = -1;
+	proc->old = 0;
 }
 
 void reinitialize_breakpoints(struct process *proc)
diff -urp ltrace-0.5/ltrace.h ltrace-0.5-pm/ltrace.h
--- ltrace-0.5/ltrace.h	2009-03-02 19:43:27.000000000 -0500
+++ ltrace-0.5-pm/ltrace.h	2009-03-02 19:06:43.000000000 -0500
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ struct process {
 	int early;	/* for consistency checks, this is true for
 			 * children whose TRAP was delivered before
 			 * the fork message of the parent.  */
+	int old;
 
 	int callstack_depth;
 	struct callstack_element callstack[MAX_CALLDEPTH];
diff -urp ltrace-0.5/proc.c ltrace-0.5-pm/proc.c
--- ltrace-0.5/proc.c	2009-03-02 19:43:27.000000000 -0500
+++ ltrace-0.5-pm/proc.c	2009-03-02 19:07:50.000000000 -0500
@@ -22,11 +22,8 @@ struct process *open_program(char *filen
 	}
 	proc->filename = filename;
 	proc->breakpoints_enabled = -1;
-	proc->pid = 0;
 	breakpoints_init(proc); 
-	if (pid) {
-		proc->pid = pid;
-	}
+	proc->pid = pid;
 
 	proc->next = list_of_processes;
 	list_of_processes = proc;
@@ -63,6 +60,9 @@ void open_forked_pid(pid_t pid, int earl
 	char *filename = pid2name(pid);
 	struct process *proc = open_program(filename, 0);
 	proc->pid = pid;
-	proc->breakpoints_enabled = -1;
+#ifdef __powerpc__
+	breakpoints_init(proc);
+	proc->breakpoints_enabled = 1;
+#endif
 	proc->early = early;
 }
diff -urp ltrace-0.5/wait_for_something.c ltrace-0.5-pm/wait_for_something.c
--- ltrace-0.5/wait_for_something.c	2009-03-02 19:43:27.000000000 -0500
+++ ltrace-0.5-pm/wait_for_something.c	2009-03-02 19:07:21.000000000 -0500
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct event *wait_for_something(void)
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
+	debug(3, "signal from pid %u, status %#x", pid, status);
 	event.proc = pid2proc(pid);
 	if (!event.proc) {
 		if(!opt_f) {
@@ -66,9 +67,13 @@ struct event *wait_for_something(void)
 	}
 	get_arch_dep(event.proc);
 	event.proc->instruction_pointer = NULL;
-	debug(3, "signal from pid %u", pid);
-	if (event.proc->breakpoints_enabled == -1) {
-		enable_all_breakpoints(event.proc);
+	if (!event.proc->old) {
+		event.proc->old = 1;
+		if (event.proc->breakpoints_enabled == -1) {
+			debug (2, "BRANCH: enable breakpoints for the first time");
+			enable_all_breakpoints(event.proc);
+			debug (2, "BRANCH: done enabling breakpoints for the first time");
+		}
 		event.thing = LT_EV_NONE;
   		if(opt_f){
 			trace_set_options(event.proc, event.proc->pid, TRACE_FORK);