Bug#398589: Broke kdm respaw
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 09:10 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> It fails when KDM try to respaw X. There I wish to plug gdb to catch
> the backtrace.
KDM isn't actively involved in that, it's just the X server resetting
after the session ends (the last client terminates). So the two options
I described should reproduce the problem.
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