Debugging X.org drivers?

[Adam Jackson]

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 19:53, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Sweet, it works perfectly! I nuked the /usr/X11R16/lib directory first
> > and it seems to be fine.
>
> Well the server runs just fine, but unfortunately I can't do any
> debugging! When I start GDB on the X server (gdb X), when I run the
> server gdb crashes with an internal error. I get the same error if I run
> the installed version of X or if I run the debug build that I have built.

This is, as near as I can tell, a bug in gdb, triggered when the server forks 
to execute xkbcomp.  One or more of us should report this to the gdb folks, 
thank you for the reminder.  I've gotten this on several versions of gdb and 
decided it was easier to attach after X was up.

$ gdb `which Xorg` `pidof X`

> What platforms and versions of gdb are you guys testing and developing
> with? I am using Fedora Core 2 on my test machine, and I just upgraded to
> all the latest patches and updates (crashed the same before and after).

Gentoo and gdb 6.2 here.

- ajax
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