On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Genes MailLists <li...@sapience.com> wrote: > I wonder if its possible to ssh in to your semi-frozen computer and > point gdb at the appropriate process?
Yes, that's very possible. If I know what process to attach to. gnome-shell? or Xorg? > If you can indeed ssh in then it would be interesting to run top and > see if there is a process stuck in a loop or if (as seems most likely) > the window manager itself has crashed and died - in which case > restarting it may well revive the desktop. I did run top once, and everything was idle, no run-away process. > In the latter case - please attach gdb to the process (from your > remote ssh login) and leave it running until the next crash - then get a > backtrace - that should be helpful to the gnome-shell devs. I can try that. But do I need to install any other packages to get ELF symbols? When I attach to gnome-shell for example I get lots of "no debugging symbols found" and this... Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install gnome-shell-3.2.1-2.fc16.x86_64 But debuginfo-install is not a recognized yum command. So what's needed? Thanks -- Deron Meranda http://deron.meranda.us/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
