Re: [E-devel] White box of death restart (F1) doesn't work again

[Tom H. <to...@st...>]

On 29/08/11 19:06, Christopher Michael wrote:
> gdb attach <pid>
> (gdb) set unwindonsignal on
> (gdb) call eina_stringshare_del(234234)
> 
> works in that it makes it possible to debug using gdb like you are 
> (calling efl functions inside gdb).
> 
> As far as the alert dialog working (restart/exit), we know it works when 
> E receives the signal from modules, etc. The problem you are 
> experiencing could be from gdb catching the signals instead of E, or it 
> could be due to xcb being threaded...not entirely sure which one, but 
> the alert code itself does work.
> 
> If you compare the changes to the old alert code and this version, you 
> will see that there is not much difference really (aside from xcb doing 
> the dialog drawing) so I am not sure that This even worked in the old 
> version. If it did work previously, then it could just be the threaded 
> nature of xcb which is the problem, but as such there is not much can be 
> done about that...I can't change xcb's threaded nature ;)
> 
> I don't know enough about what gdb is doing wrt signals to dig much 
> deeper into this. Do we have any gdb gurus that could help ??

Sorry, I was'nt clear: call eina_stringshare_del like you did, *detach
gdb* and then press F1/press the button. And still, it fails... This has
nothing to do with gdb, it just fails, so no need for gdb gurus.

Please check that out.

--
Tom.