On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Dale<[email protected]> wrote: >> <SNIP> >> >>> >>> It works as long as I don't open Firefox. If I open Firefox, poof!! No >>> more trapped smoke. lol >>> >>> Dale >>> >> >> So I had suggested running it in gdb and someone else suggested >> running it in strace. Did you have a chance to try either of those? >> >> Not sure how much info you'll get from either but might be worth a try. >> >> - Mark >> >> >> > > I don't know what gdb is. If my machine locks up, I won't be able to see > what strace does. I'm not sure that will help. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
gdb is the GNU Debugger. As for the usability of strace in your case, if you can see the last few calls before the lock-up occurs, it could help narrow things down a bit. Also, if you SSH into the machine and run firefox through strace via that (drawing to the machine's local screen, not the SSH client's), you will have anything it can give in a workable form, even after the system hangs. You might also test whether it crashes while running Firefox via SSH and drawing to a different machine, which (if it does) would allow you to sit on a real terminal on the main system and see the kernel's output in the instant of the crash or (if it doesn't) would narrow it down to X being a key factor. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
