Bug#608162: metacity: Enabling compositing causes several applications to crash X server

[Jeremy <jeremybubs@gmail.com>]

Okay, so here's what happens:

I CTRL-ALT-F1.... log in.... su to root terminal

#gdb attach 2526  (which is the PID of Xorg)
then it goes through a bunch of

"reading symbols...loaded symbols"

Finally, it outputs:

0xaddress    in __Select_nocancel () at ../sysdeps/unix.syscall-template.S:82
82                ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S: No such file or directory.
                    in ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S

I then type

(gdb) handle SIGPIPE nostop
*output here*
(gdb)cont
Continuing.

I then press CTRL-ALT-F7 and it freezes.

Jeremy

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Jeremy <jeremybubs@gmail.com> wrote:

No, if I recall, I do it from the first virtual terminal, and then it locks up.  I'll have to double check though.

Jeremy

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

Jeremy <jeremybubs@gmail.com> (22/02/2011):

> I've tried a few times to get a backtrace, but every time try to
> attach GDB to the process, it freezes up.  I'm going to try again,
> to tell you exactly what happens.

you're not trying to attach from within X, are you? :)

KiBi.

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