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[SOLVED] Re: Debugging X with GDB

From: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz dot org>
To: Jonathan Morton <jonathan dot morton at movial dot com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan at codesourcery dot com>, dclark <dclark at gnu dot org>, xorg-devel at lists dot x dot org, rms at gnu dot org, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:26:26 -0500
Subject: [SOLVED] Re: Debugging X with GDB
References: <E1NSMSM-0000oT-51@fencepost.gnu.org> <1263170536.29695.86.camel@giskard> <20100111140155.GD428@caradoc.them.org> <1263219976.15247.81.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 16:26 +0200, Jonathan Morton wrote:

> A good trick might be to run X+gdb via SSH or a serial console.  This
> is then immune to VT switching semantics.

This is how I'm currently debugging, but X unconditionally cripples the
console even if it's a pty.

...

Wait, I've found a workaround! There's a specific option:

  -keeptty         don't detach controlling tty (for debugging only)

That's cool, but I guess we should document it very prominently in the
wiki:

 http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging

-- 
   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
 \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/

References:
- Debugging X with GDB
  - From: Bernie Innocenti
- Re: Debugging X with GDB
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: Debugging X with GDB
  - From: Jonathan Morton

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