Bug#419986: output of 'ps ax'

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Olaf Till wrote:
> Unfortunately, though I could ssh to the machine from at home in a
> first test, I got no connection and no ping-answers when I tried
> later. Anyway my gdb was unable to attach to a running X even when I
> tried locally at home, though it could attach to other programs (also
> with no debugging symbols). So this probably will not work.
>   

This is strange. As long as you don't try to attach gdb from a terminal
running inside X, attaching should work fine (with gdb -p $(pidof X)).
If you see the X process in ps, there's no reason you couldn't attach.

> With xserver-xorg-core_1.2.99.905-2_i386.deb (ignoring dependencies
> except libc6) X behaved correctly without drm, but did not even come
> up with drm, there was no process X afterwards. Installing
> xserver-xorg-core-dbg_1.2.99.905-2_i386.deb worked.
>   

This is strange too. Installing the -dbg package should not change
anything regarding "does it start successfully or not?". It only
provides some debugging symbols for gdb.

> I again attach the xorg.conf used for all this and the log of the
> experimental X-server with dri.
>   

The log is pretty small and doesn't show any problem. Is this the right one?

Brice