Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomenon

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 23 mars 2009 à 23:33 -0600, Paul E Condon a écrit :
> I'm following the steps. It is taking a while. I'm not surprised or 
> worried by the time. But while its working, I'm thinking I see that
> I am to run the program under gdb by invoking gdb from a command line.
> I run programs from a command line all the time, but from a command
> line in a gnome-terminal window under gnome and X. So what do I really
> do to run gnome-terminal under the control of gdb? I've never done 
> this before. I think I need some very explicit instructions. When I
> get to the place were the web site says type: 
> $ gdb hello
> 
> What do I actually do instead? I'm sure its 'obvious', but it's only 
> obvious after one has been told.

That would be gdb /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.

As for debugging the terminal itself, you have several solutions:
      * From another terminal. Run xterm, and from it run gdb on
        gnome-terminal.
      * From the console. Run gnome-terminal, then attach gdb to it from
        the text console (gdb /usr/bin/gnome-terminal `pidof
        gnome-terminal`).
      * By launching two instances. At the execution step of gdb, type
        "run --disable-factory". This will start a new gnome-terminal
        process. Then you have to pray that changing the settings will
        make this new process crash and not the one from which you are
        running gdb.

Cheers,
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