[MPlayer-users] getting a stack trace when X is hung
Aaron Brick
aaron at lithic.org
Mon Oct 20 06:28:19 CEST 2003
thanks! this worked, though i only got one line of stack trace
(mpeg2_slice() was the function in question). i can prepare a full bug
report, but this doesn't seem like enough to go on.
cheers,
aaron.
so said rcooley at spamcop.net in 0.8K bytes on Sat, Oct 18, 2003:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:53:02 -0700
> Aaron Brick <aaron at lithic.org> wrote:
>
> > killall mplayer, which solves the problem. however, when i did so,
> > running it through gdb, i couldn't get X back until i had killed gdb
> > itself, which meant that i couldn't get a stack trace.
> >
> > any suggestions on how to analyze this problem? thanks.
>
> X is very cool...
>
> Login to a VT as the same user that is running X. Type something like
> the following: "export DISPLAY=:0.0"
>
> Then, from that text terminal, you can launch any GUI app, and it will
> show-up in X, but the I/O (gdb) will happen in that VT.
>
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