On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:17:27PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> You don't want to mess with the client (gv); the client may be buggy, but
> the problem that hangs your session is (probably) the fault of the X
> server.
>
> The process you want to look for is XFree86-debug. If it's still running,
> which it appears to be, you can use GDB to attach to the running process
> and ask for a backtrace.
>
> E.g., here's a partial transcript of me performing this procedure with an
> XFree86-debug X server running in its normal event loop (where it is when
> it has nothing else to do). I expect the results of your backtrace will
> look a bit different.
>
> 505 {0} [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ps -fC XFree86-debug
> UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> root 32410 32406 4 13:12 ? 00:00:00 XFree86-debug :1 vt10
> 506 {0} [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# gdb $(which XFree86-debug) 32410
> GNU gdb 6.3-debian
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "powerpc-linux"...Using host libthread_db
> library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
>
> Attaching to program: /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-debug, process 32410
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done.
> [SNIP]
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x0fe14f10 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1 0x1051a774 in WaitForSomething (pClientsReady=0x7fffeba0) at
> WaitFor.c:350
> #2 0x104d1848 in Dispatch () at dispatch.c:379
> #3 0x104f397c in main (argc=3, argv=0x7ffff084, envp=0x7ffff094) at
> main.c:469
> (gdb)
>
> Can you try the above procedure, please?*PING* Are you able to receive my mail? If we do not get a response, we will have to close this report. -- G. Branden Robinson | Psychology is really biology. Debian GNU/Linux | Biology is really chemistry. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chemistry is really physics. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Physics is really math.
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