I decided to take a poke at this since I had a hung run sitting around for 24 or so hours.
How does one debug a running python program? Googling tells me that it isn't easy. <https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/4dooqu/how_to_attachdebug_an_already_running_python/> Some brave souls use gdb, thus they have to study the entrails of the interpreter. I'm not that desperate. pdb can attach to a running program IF you installed breakpoints before you ran it. That doesn't count. I also found PyDev: <http://pydev.blogspot.com/2014/09/attaching-debugger-to-running-process.html> Sounds good. Then I found that it was part of Eclipse. I've never used Eclipse because it seems like a monster, but if the monster can eat bugs, why not? My computer and I thrashed about in eclipse for a while. What a treat. The term from which I invoked eclipse got a message. I didn't preserve it. Would anyone else have run eclipse from a terminal? If not, how would they see this message? The message said that I needed to run a pkcon command to install something for building a project. When I issued the pkcon command (sudoed, even though the message didn't suggest this), it wanted to remove some packages, including anaconda. No thanks! I followed the blog post for running PyDev. It took a lot of fumbling to find where to tell it the location of the python interpreter. It was quite insistent that I set this but gave no assistance in locating the setting. Being a GUI, I am unlikely to remember how I did it. I did try "help" but that did nothing. I'm not complaining that it didn't address my question, I'm complaining that it was a no-op! Then the moment of truth. Attach to the running program and look at a traceback! At which point it hit a bug and asked if I'd like to report it to three or four different folks. I said "sure". Then the bug reporter failed in a couple of ways: It got some dbus thing to time out and ask me (every few seconds) if I wanted to wait or proceed. And the bug reporter failing provoked another bug reporter to come up. I gave up. What a shambles. _______________________________________________ Swan-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreswan.org/mailman/listinfo/swan-dev
