[gst-devel] Debugging GStreamer

[Jan Schmidt]

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 13:26 +0000, Chris Ross wrote:
> Hi Edward,
> 
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Edward Hervey wrote:
> >   could you give us a backtrace ?
> 
> Sadly not, that is why I was asking how to get gst-inspect itself to be a
> lot more vocal about what it's doing.
> 
> # gdb gst-inspect 
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> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/bin/gst-inspect

When debugging gst-inspect, you need to know that both gst-launch and
gst-inspect are small wrapper programs that find gst-launch-0.10 and
gst-inspect-0.10 and run those instead. 

You should try gdb gst-inspect-0.10 instead.

Regards,
Jan.

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