Bug#707681: Happens also with 1.18.2-1

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Wed Oct 30 15:33:59 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 16:24 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 30/10/13 15:48, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 11:16 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> >> On 30/10/13 09:13, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> >>> Is someone actually looking at bug reports and can investigate if it's a
> >>> problem in gvfs, in libusb or elsewhere?
> >>
> >> Get a gdb backtrace with debugging symbols (the one in the bug report is
> >> useless), and ideally send it to bugzilla.gnome.org.
> >>
> > Can you indicate how to do that, considering I have no idea how exactly
> > the binary is run?
> 
> get a core file, or attach to the process while it's running, or if it's
> crashing just after it's spawned, patch it to have a sleep or an infinite loop
> right at startup and then after you attach with gdb you change the variable so
> it exits the loop and continues. Or maybe just run gvfsd or
> gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor under gdb and follow the child (I'm not sure who's
> launching gvfsd-gphoto2 so not sure if the latter would work).

gvfsd-gphoto2 seems dbus activated so it's not really practical. And
rebuilding the whole stuff is pretty painful actually, which is why I
asked some help from the package maintainers…

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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