[mythtv] debugging a crashing backend

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Mon Feb 27 10:50:58 UTC 2006


Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:57:17AM +0000, Simon Kenyon wrote:
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>>can anybody suggest how to debug a crash i'm getting with a slave backend?
>>i'm running it under gdb and can crash it repeatedly.
>>unfortunately, gdb says it cannot give me a backtrace (i suspect the 
>>stack is toast)
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>If the stack is being corrupted then it is likely an invalid memory access
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>>are there any other tools/methods that people could suggest i use to try 
>>and track this one down?
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>Running the backend under valgrind should help to point out what is
>misbehaving here.
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thank you for that
i will (try to) run it under valgrind this eveing

regards
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simon
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simon


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