On Tuesday 07 August 2007 1:43:21 am J.C. Roberts wrote: > I'm looking for all the needed steps to get firefox debug running in > gdb. It's my first attempt at this and I've failed to the correct find > the mozilla docs (assuming they exist) or details in the misc@, ports@ > or tech@ archives. > > From what I've learned, you're supposed to use the following switches > with the /usr/bin/firefox shell script. > > $ firefox -g > > You can be more explicit by naming the binary and the debugger. > > $ firefox -g /usr/local/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -d gdb > > The two are equivalent. > > Once inside gdb, I know you need to handle some signals. I've tried all > combinations of the following signals and handling (nostop etc) without > any luck: > > (gdb) handle SIG32 nostop noprint pass > (gdb) handle SIG33 nostop noprint pass > (gdb) handle SIGPIPE nostop noprint pass > > > The problem I'm having is the gdb session just stops, without error, and > firefox never actually loads. It never stops in the same place twice > but it always stops.
Hi, use 'set auto-solib-add off' to stop gdb from loading symbols from all shared libs. then selectively load shared lib symbols with 'shared libname' for placing breakpoints or to get line numbers from 'bt'. this technique is also needed to debug OOo issues. -Kurt
