[mythtv] Debugging of mythbackend

[Daniel Thor Kristjansson]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 Emlyn.Bolton at nokia.com wrote:
]Won't work right - gdb needs to know how to interpret the sig32s to deal with
]threads properly.  A functional gdb doesn't show the sig32 events at all.
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]Isaac
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]Thanks!
]Is there anything special required to get gdb working properly - other components compiled with debug support, for example? Do I need some kernel level support?
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]Is there anybody on the list with Gentoo and a working gdb?

Ah, gentoo...
If "file /lib/libpthread*" has "stripped" anywhere in the output try
this...

FEATURES=nostrip emerge glibc

You may need to have "-g" in your CFLAGS.

-- Daniel


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]-----Original Message-----
]From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
][mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of ext Isaac Richards
]Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:08 PM
]To: Development of mythtv
]Subject: Re: [mythtv] Debugging of mythbackend
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]On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:19 pm, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
]> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 Emlyn.Bolton at nokia.com wrote:
]> ](gdb) run
]> ]Starting program: /usr/bin/mythbackend
]> ]warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
]> ]GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
]> ]and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.
]> ]Starting up as the master server.
]> ]2004-09-21 12:47:17 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server
]> ]
]> ]Program received signal SIG32, Real-time event 32.
]> ]0x413c3974 in pthread_getconcurrency () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
]>
]> I don't think libthread_db is your problem. You need to issue
]>
]> (gdb) handle SIG32 nostop noprint
]> (gdb) handle SIG33 nostop noprint
]>
]> to run past the pthread signals.
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]Emlyn
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