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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13979





--- Comment #5 from Matthias Hopf <mhopf@xxxxxxx>  2008-01-14 07:39:03 PST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Ubuntu has an "xserver-xorg-core-dbg" package that "provides debugging symbols
> for the Xorg X sever and associated modules". Is this equivalent to the
> debuginfo packages?

I have *no* idea, I never ever installed Ubuntu. But it sounds reasonable.

> bug 12907 has a script that directs gdb to start X, do a backtrace, and save
> the output. This script does not work for me, because /usr/bin/Xorg just 
> brings
> up a screen with black and white zig zags and a black "X" cursor. I can move
> the cursor around, but I can't start KDE or exit from Xorg. (And I need to do 
> a
> resize to trigger this bug.)

Use it with
xf86debug & sleep 2 && DISPLAY=:0 kde

Alternatively, change /var/X11R6/bin/X (a symlink) to this script.

> When I edited the script so that gdb called startx or xinit instead of 
> directly
> calling Xorg, the output files were empty.

Yes, it has to call Xorg directly, otherwise the debugger would watch on the
wrong Xserver.


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