On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 13:41:17 -0600 Jeff Hoogland <jeffhoogl...@gmail.com> said:

too many places/pages to tack. the phab page... replace with

--vgdb-error=0

> That wiki page seems to be out of date:
> 
> Got stuck in the very first line asked on the wiki page:
> 
> valgrind --tool=memcheck --db-attach=yes enlightenment
> 
> It returns:
> 
> valgrind: Unknown option: --db-attach=yes
> valgrind: Use --help for more information or consult the user manual.
> 
> --db-attach is not mentioned on the --help of valgrind, and this site (
> http://valgrind.org/.../dist.news.html
> <http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.news.html>) states that:
> 
> 
> 
> * The command line options --db-attach and --db-command have been removed.*
> *  They were deprecated in 3.10.0.*
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On 01/09/2017 08:50 AM, Jeff Hoogland wrote:
> > > How does valgrind differ from Xephyr? Is there a wiki page explaining how
> > > to do what you are suggesting?
> > >
> >
> > valgrind and Xephyr are too completely different things doing unrelated
> > things, in enlightenments case its best that if you are running
> > enlightenment under valgrind you run it in Xephyr because its going to
> > be close to too slow to use.
> >
> > Xephyr lets you run an xsession such as enlightenment within a window of
> > another running xsession so you can run a instance of e in a window
> > inside another instance of e.
> >
> > Valgrind is a memory debugging tool it tracks when blocks of memory are
> > allocated and deallocated by doing this it can tell you when a block of
> > code read / writes to invalid memory regions causing memory corruption
> > which is likely whats causing your bug. Generally in code this happens
> > when you have a pointer stored in 2 or more places and place one frees
> > its memory but place 2 then decides to use it again later once the
> > memory has been allocated to something else.
> >
> > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 2:39 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 02:21:10 -0600 Jeff Hoogland <jeffhoogl...@gmail.com
> > >
> > >> said:
> > >>
> > >>> Having some users report segfaults with our E17 fork using the latest
> > EFL
> > >>> under our Ubuntu 16.04 base.
> > >>>
> > >>> Had someone run a back trace and post it here
> > >>> <http://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.php?/topic/14036-moksha-
> > >> segfault/?p=102195>.
> > >>> Looks like it is dying in the EFL somewhere? I'm honestly not great at
> > >>> debugging C code - anyone help point me in the right direction?
> > >>
> > >> the backtrace is "long after the bug already happened". the malloc heap
> > is
> > >> corrupt. libc has detected something is wrong and aborted during an
> > >> allocation.
> > >> what caused the issue is unknown. it could be efl. could be e. could be
> > >> libpng. could be just about anything. it is unknown. the best way to
> > find
> > >> out
> > >> who is doing this is to use valgrind to run execution and it can trap
> > >> out-of-allocation writes and tell you the exact point where this write
> > is
> > >> done.
> > >> that would provide the info needed to fix if it isn;'t already fixed in
> > >> git efl
> > >> - if the issue is there. if the issue is in e17 it'd point that out
> > too. or
> > >> wherever else it is.
> > >>
> > >> --
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> > >> The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
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> >
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