Bug#398589: Broke kdm respaw
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 20:12 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@ens-lyon.org> writes:
>
> > In order to get a backtrace from the segfault, you need to run gdb on an
> > X server with debugging symbols enabled, which will then give a much
> > more informative backtrace.
>
> The problem here is I don't know how to simulate it without using the
> KDM
You can trigger a server reset by running a client that terminates
immediately, e.g. xdpyinfo.
> and how could I do to make KDM to attach gdb on it?
You can attach gdb to a running X server with something like
gdb -p $(pidof X)
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