On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 22:40, Rob Lahaye wrote: > Darren, > > Have a look at the attached script.
I'm trying it now, and changing what I want to. These are my thoughts: 1) Running lyxdbg0.2 with no command line options should try to work out what lyx to run, or give an error message, not run gdb on nothing and grab a backtrace =) I've added the ability to check if $1 is executable and if not, retry on `dirname $0`/lyx which seems to be working. 2) It seems that if running lyx through lyxdbg, that the emergency save is not performed. I wonder how to modify gdbcmd so that after it possibly bombs, it does a backtrace and then executes the lyx recovery code. 3) I can't test reading of coredump because my system is configured not to generate them (Mandrake 9.0 default). I might have broken it in 0.2b since I'm not very experienced with shell scripts so please check =) Apart from that it's looking pretty solid now! > It can handle what you intended, but also the core file by calling > "lyxdbg src/lyx lyx.core". It also writes to current working directory, > instead of LYXDIR, which garantees better the write permission. > The script also uses /bin/sh (/bin/bash breaks on FreeBSD since there > it must be /usr/local/bin/bash). I suspected as much. I started writing it for me, and I use bash =) Yes it wasn't very finished way back in v0.1 =) > Rob. Have fun, Darren
#!/bin/sh # # This file is copyright 2002 Darren Freeman and Rob Lahaye. # It is covered by the GNU General Public License which was supplied with LyX. # 0.1 - Initial version by Darren Freeman # 0.2 - Greatly improved by Rob Lahaye # 0.2b - Revisited by Darren Freeman version="LyX automatic backtrace generator v0.2b" echo "$version" lyx="$1" if ( test -x "$lyx" ) then # First argument was executable so remove it. shift else # Not executable, probably a document or coredump. Try same dir as this file. lyx=`dirname "$0"`/lyx if ( ! test -x "$lyx" ) then echo You must either supply the path to LyX as the first argument or copy this file to the LyX directory. exit fi fi gdbcmd="lyx-gdb-cmd" trace="lyx-trace" echo "# $version" > $gdbcmd if ( test $# -gt 1 ) then coredump=`file -i $1 | grep coredump` [ -n "$coredump" ] && coredump=$1 fi # Create stdin for GDB if ( test -z "$coredump" ) then # GDB needs to run LyX as no coredump was found. echo "set arg $@" >> $gdbcmd echo "run" >> $gdbcmd fi echo "bt" >> $gdbcmd echo "up" >> $gdbcmd echo "quit" >> $gdbcmd # prepend the GDB commands to the trace so we don't need to email it. cp $gdbcmd $trace echo "----------*----------*----------" >> $trace echo "Loading $lyx into debugger." echo "This may take a while..." gdb < $gdbcmd >> $trace 2>&1 $lyx $coredump rm $gdbcmd echo echo "Wrote the file $trace with everything GDB and LyX said." # Extra messages when interesting things are in lyx-trace.. # add more interesting things below! if ( grep SIGSEGV $trace ) then echo echo "Whoa! Looks like something nasty happened." echo "*Please* email the above file to the LyX team at:" echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" echo "Don't forget to include what you were doing when it bombed!" fi
