Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 01:16:59 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.hack...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 09 October 2009 00:38:32 Paul B Mahol wrote: On 10/9/09, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.hack...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: Hi, is there a way to have a program run through gdb and gdb

Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.hack...@mailing.thruhere.net writes: is there a way to have a program run through gdb and gdb only record a segfault, but otherwise let the program run? Yes, just run gdb /path/to/program and type run. [...] sudo *sometimes* segfaults [...] However, it doesn't dump

Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Stef Walter
Mel Flynn wrote: [1] In order to get this working I had to put a statically compiled ps in the jail This is a pretty standard practice. I always put these statically built into any jails that don't match the outside system. I use the following crunchgen config to accomplish that. Cheers,

Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 09 October 2009 11:38:29 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.hack...@mailing.thruhere.net writes: is there a way to have a program run through gdb and gdb only record a segfault, but otherwise let the program run? Yes, just run gdb /path/to/program and type run.

Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 09 October 2009 16:50:04 Mel Flynn wrote: On Friday 09 October 2009 11:38:29 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.hack...@mailing.thruhere.net writes: [...] sudo *sometimes* segfaults [...] However, it doesn't dump core sudo(1) is setuid root. You need to set

Re: crashinfo: print the content of ddb capture budder

2009-10-09 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 05 October 2009 1:48:06 am Mikolaj Golub wrote: Hi, It would be nice if crashinfo(8) were also trying to output the content of ddb capture buffer. Something like in this patch: --- crashinfo.sh.orig 2009-10-05 08:26:26.0 +0300 +++ crashinfo.sh 2009-10-05

newfs -r 2

2009-10-09 Thread Igor Sysoev
I have found that newfs in 8-STABLE has -r switch with zero default value. I think it should be 1 or 2 by default: as I understand, these sectors are not used usually by filesystem anyway since they are not in last cylinder group. Therefore noone would see the difference in usable space, but this

Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: On Friday 09 October 2009 11:38:29 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.hack...@mailing.thruhere.net writes: is there a way to have a program run through gdb and gdb only record a segfault, but otherwise let the program run? Yes, just run

Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 09 October 2009 16:50:04 Mel Flynn wrote: On Friday 09 October 2009 11:38:29 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.hack...@mailing.thruhere.net writes: is there a way to have a program run through gdb and gdb only record a segfault, but otherwise let the program

Re: sigwait - differences between Linux FreeBSD

2009-10-09 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:02:09PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:53:21AM +1100, Stephen Hocking wrote: In my efforts to make the xrdp port more robust under FreeBSD, I have discovered that sigwait (kind of an analogue to select(2), but for signals rather than I/O)

Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.hack...@mailing.thruhere.net writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Yes, just run gdb /path/to/program and type run. Not what I was looking for. The segfaults are random and the only way to somewhat reliably reproduce it is to have portmaster invoke it as

Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Nate Eldredge n...@thatsmathematics.com writes: This won't work. You can't debug setuid programs (for reasons which should be obvious). Ah, true, but easily fixable. Add a sysctl for it (just copy-paste the declaration for kern.sugid_coredump and change the name) and check its value in

sysinstall colours

2009-10-09 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, sysinstall is probably one of those ancient relics everybody tries to avoid dealing with from a developers point of view but i just found this beautiful screenie of a (probably) ncurse-based installer: http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_betaimage=yoper_dresden_7_lrg i was

Re: crashinfo: print the content of ddb capture budder

2009-10-09 Thread Mikolaj Golub
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 11:28:11 -0400 John Baldwin wrote: JB On Monday 05 October 2009 1:48:06 am Mikolaj Golub wrote: Hi, It would be nice if crashinfo(8) were also trying to output the content of ddb capture buffer. Something like in this patch: --- crashinfo.sh.orig

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-09 Thread jhell
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:52 +0200, alexbestms@ wrote: hi there, sysinstall is probably one of those ancient relics everybody tries to avoid dealing with from a developers point of view but i just found this beautiful screenie of a (probably) ncurse-based installer:

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-09 Thread james toy
Alexander, ==8== http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_betaimage=yoper_dresden_7_lrg ==8== The head maintainer of Yoper; Tobias G, runs a kernel patchset I work on from http://zen-sources.org as his default kernel. I am sure he would be more than happy to discuss some of their

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-09 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: hi there, sysinstall is probably one of those ancient relics everybody tries to avoid dealing with from a developers point of view but i just found this beautiful screenie of a (probably) ncurse-based

Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 09 October 2009 21:27:21 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.hack...@mailing.thruhere.net writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Yes, just run gdb /path/to/program and type run. Not what I was looking for. The segfaults are random and the only way to