Re: how to track down random logouts?
MIKE G ROSING (mrosing@wisc.edu)
Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:13:49 -0600
Howdy Tim,
Frank Gore sent me the following:
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cd into the source tree
./configure --enable-gdb --prefix=/where/to/install
make
make install
then setup afterstep to run like so:
/where/you/installed/afterstep -l ~/afterstep.log
And then after you've managed to crash afterstep, just email the log
file to sasha@aftercode.net (preferrably compressed somehow)
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what I did was eliminate --prefix in the ./configure
and I changed /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients to have:
if [ -n "$PREFERRED" ] && which $PREFERRED >/dev/null 2>&1; then
PREFERRED=`which $PREFERRED`
# exec $PREFERRED
exec $PREFERRED -l /home/mike/afterstep.log
fi
Obviously your ~ won't be /home/mike.
Then, after a crash, I login using Gnome and bzip2
the afterstep.log file. If you login again with
afterstep the useful info is lost. Send it to
Sasha, with a good description of how you caused
the crash. He's fixed a few problems I've found
that way!
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike
----- Original Message -----
From: tim <afterstep@nsr500.net>
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 2:50 pm
Subject: how to track down random logouts?
> I've had multiple strange unexpected clean logouts while using
> mozilla 1.5
> with no errors in ~.AfterStep-errors or /var/log/*, and I am not
> even sure
> afterstep is responsible.
>
> I am unfamiliar with X11 internals and have considered 'afterstep --
> debug',
> but it is usually weeks between crashes. No other os or app
> crashes or
> instability. Core file is 111KB compressed.
>
> Any suggestion on how to proceed? Thanks in advance.
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