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| xfce:xfce4-panel:debugging [2012/01/18 14:32] – created nick | xfce:xfce4-panel:debugging [2012/01/18 14:40] – nick |
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| ==== GDB ==== | ==== GDB ==== |
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| If you start the panel with ''PANEL_DEBUG=gdb'' and [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/|gdb]] is installed on your computer, all external plugins. | If you start the panel with ''PANEL_DEBUG=gdb'' and [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/|gdb]] is installed on your computer, all external plugins will be started in gdb. The output of //gdb// is written to ''/tmp/<stamp>_gdb_<plugin-name>_<plugin-id>.log''. If the plugin segfaults, it will automatically create a //backtrace full// and dump //info registers//. |
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| ==== Valgrind ==== | This does not mean the output contains valuable information. For good backtraces it is still recommended to create a debug-build of the plugin. |
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| | ==== Valgrind ==== |
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| | To detect memory leaks and corruptions, it is also possible to run plugins in [[http://valgrind.org/|valgrind]]. For this start the panel with ''PANEL_DEBUG=valgrind''. Logs will be written to the same location as the //gdb// logs. |