[mythtv] howto? gdb trace

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Sat Feb 4 17:39:18 UTC 2006


On Saturday 04 February 2006 12:31, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 12:24 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 February 2006 12:08, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > > Someone mentioned earlier that the gdb info on the website is wrong.
> > > I've had issues with mythfrontend crashing alot with no info in the
> > > log as to why. I want to get a backtrace but want to make sure I'm
> > > doing it properly, can someone link me to or reply with correct
> > > information on how to do this?
> > >
> > > or if the info on the website is correct just verify it for me.
> >
> > Info on the website works.
>
> I this Steve's question is due to something I said to someone who
> seemed to have a broken glibc. The info on the website works, but
> it silently ignores a broken glibc, due to the SIG33 suppression.
>
> If you left out the noprint, then it would print out gobs of
> SIG33's if you had a broken glibc, but at most one or two at
> startup if you had a working glibc.

The sig33 handler is in there because without it, we got too many backtraces 
stopping at that first sig33 signal, and not continuing on.

Isaac


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