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| author | Orestis Floros <orestisflo@gmail.com> | 2023-07-15 00:08:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-07-15 21:27:11 +0200 |
| commit | cf2ea348c73a97a7b757b1c95c42487b4a2997cf (patch) | |
| tree | e17c17378757e6bb1c72f17c5456f85681e4c505 | |
| parent | e6b41172da01225747f4551d95d4eac64befb4fa (diff) | |
| download | i3-cf2ea348c73a97a7b757b1c95c42487b4a2997cf.tar.gz i3-cf2ea348c73a97a7b757b1c95c42487b4a2997cf.zip | |
debugging docs: Add note about ptrace
Also remove outdated section about IRC
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/debugging | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/debugging b/docs/debugging index 562a11f2..cfc260cc 100644 --- a/docs/debugging +++ b/docs/debugging @@ -147,16 +147,17 @@ After pressing "b" in the crash dialog, you will get a file called id (PID) and the second one is incremented each time you generate a backtrace, starting at 0. -== Sending bug reports/debugging on IRC +In Linux, if the backtrace just says +No stack.+, that's because gdb does not +have necessary permissions to attach to a running process. You can fix that by +running from a terminal (you can open a new tty, e.g. with ctrl-alt-F2): -When sending bug reports, please attach the *whole* log file. Even if you think -you found the section which clearly highlights the problem, additional -information might be necessary to completely diagnose the problem. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope +--------------------------------------------------------------------- -When debugging with us in IRC, be prepared to use a so-called nopaste service -such as https://pastebin.com because pasting large amounts of text in IRC -sometimes leads to incomplete lines (servers have line length limitations) or -flood kicks. +Afterwards, try re-generating the stack trace. Note that this setting re-sets +after reboot, see more info at +https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/security/Yama.txt. == Debugging i3bar |